Rodrigo Rato is believed to have benefited from a tax amnesty law in 2012, in Spain, to repatriate undeclared capital and hidden in offshore companies. The information was revealed by several national media.
Rodrigo Rato is part of a list of 700 suspects established by investigators. But that is no stranger: he was Minister of Economy and Vice President of the Aznar government before heading the International Monetary Fund from 2004 to 2007.
The case also splashes his party, the PP, still in power in Spain. "I have the responsibility of keeping things secret and a duty of confidentiality, reacted Luis de Guindos, the current Minister of Economy. The only thing I can tell you is that all state institutions comply with the legal procedures. "
The case has sparked heated debate Wednesday in the Spanish Parliament. Rodrigo Rato, he ensures that he never owned companies in tax havens. Some sources say that the money would come from a family inheritance.
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