Panama papers, gürtel plot

Correa visited Panama at least 26 times between 2004 and 2008

The Spanish justice also asked about a possible request for nationality Bonnet Gürtel in the Central American country FRANCISCO MEDINA

Francisco Correa, the principal involved in the plot Gürtel, turned their trips to Panama into a routine that during the years of greatest splendor of the plot, rather appeared to convert the Madrid-Panama in their particular aerian bridge.

In fact, as stated in one of the volumes of the indictment in the High Court on the activities of Correa, only in his last year released, 2008, perhaps it besets because I knew that justice was on his trail, man-Gürtel He traveled to Panama on seven occasions.

26 trips in just four years

Of course, as a document of the National Directorate of Immigration and Naturalization of the Ministry of Government and Justice of Panama between 2004 and 2008, Francisco Correa entered his country at least 26 times. Many of them, incidentally, not only flying from Spain but also from the United States and, on one occasion, from Colombia.

This entire period, the year 2007 was in most cases Correa traveled to Panama to nine times. He traveled in four in 2006 and three in 2005 and 2004 to the total of 26 trips that seemed more menudear as their legal situation was complicated.

Double nationality

In fact, many trips to Panama evidently aroused the curiosity of the Spanish justice, which made numerous requests to the justice of that country about the adventures of Francisco Correa there. Moreover, at a certain moment, the police and the Spanish prosecution alleged corruption detected movements Correa to try to get dual citizenship. Suspicious activity that led them to send a rogatory to the Panamanian authorities, who conducted investigations turn which were derived at least some illicit efforts by a local law office.

The conviction of justice was that Correa was moving to settle in that country to evade the Spanish police actions. A society Panamanian screen So far in so-called 'papers Panama' has not been implicated directly to Francisco Correa, or any other person involved in the Gürtel, but does appear in the summary of the High Court that the lawyer's office Mossack Fonseca I think in that country for Correa himself and the former mayor of Boadilla del Monte, Arturo González Panero, the albondiguilla, along with two other people, a society screen, Itelsa. Society was liquidated shortly afterwards and whose funds were distributed among other companies involved screen.