Spain PM knew of payoffs in party: Former treasurer

‘The former finance chief for Spain’s ruling Popular Party says Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy was aware of the payoffs to the party members “from the very beginning.”

On Friday, Luis Barcenas said the ruling party officials had received regular payoffs, adding that all his claims are based on facts.

“The accounts are reliable from first to last, [and] there is nothing that does not correspond to the real world,” he stated.

Barcenas, who was jailed in 2013 over charges of financial corruption, was released on a USD 228,000 bail on Thursday.’

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