The first thing that should be asked is how the National Competition Market Commission had such an amount in its treasury and also in a single bank when its mission is precisely to protect and generate competition among private companies.
The amount itself, taking into account that the CNMC charges the fines imposed on large companies or large lobbies, may be justified for this reason. However, what is not justified in any way is the withdrawal of those deposits.
Public institutions withdrew in the days prior to the seizure of the Popular a total of 14,000 million euros. Among these institutions was the Government of the Canary Islands and the Social Security Treasury itself.
Public institutions withdrew in the days prior to the seizure of the Popular a total of 14,000 million euros. Among these institutions was the Government of the Canary Islands and the Social Security Treasury itself.
But there were more: Autonomous Communities, Town halls and entities directly or indirectly dependent on the Government of Rajoy PP.
However, being an agency directly under the Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness gives us an idea that the leak to other public institutions had to start from the ministry of Luis de Guindos.
The fundamental consequence of these movements was an important loss of deposits and, therefore, of liquidity that was one of the causes that was argued to intervene to Popular.
However, there are many other dark movements, some of which have already been appearing in these pages, especially as regards the documentation and data used for intervention and the subsequent sale by one euro of Popular to Santander.
According to sources consulted by Diario16, there is no signed legal document of Popular addressed to the FROB requesting that the entity be intervened by the JUR.
According to those who are involved in the rescue operation at Santander, it was Emilio Saracho who reported that the bank did not have the liquidity to even open the offices the next day.
This was not so. Saracho did not sign that document and if someone did it he did not have the necessary power to do it. On the other hand, this document, if its existence is true, is not legal because it was not passed by the Board of Directors, which, according to the Statutes, has to approve that communication.
On the other hand, the members of the Saracho Board of Directors charged 7 million euros, of which 4 corresponded to the president himself who led Popular to be intervened. That Council was able to collect that amount for the communication that they did not sign.
The question is: how could they charge that amount when the entity was not viable and did not have liquidity?
Another important aspect to take into account is the already famous report of Deloitte and the constant refusal of the JUR to make it public or to be consulted.
He has denied it to the lawyers of those affected, he has denied it to Spanish MEPs, he has denied it even to the Congress of Deputies.
How far will the insolence of European economic authorities deny access to documentation that should be public to the legitimate representatives of a sovereign State and a member of both the European Union and the Eurozone?
What does this document hide so that access is denied?
It is so obscurantism that even doubt that the report of Deloitte exists and, if so, the scandal would already be of biblical proportions.
The same as with the minutes of the auction that led to the Popular was delivered for a "price" of 1 euro.
The president of the FROB, Jaime Ponce, acknowledged in the Committee on Economy of the Congress of Deputies contemplated a positive scenario for the Popular but that was not taken into account because it could not be applied with the current regulations.
This we already affirm in Diario16 two months ago and now it is the own FROB that recognizes it. What
What is it that you could not apply?
At stake was the economic patrimony of more than 300,000 families who have fallen to ruin, families of workers, self-employed, pensioners, retirees, etc., not large investors or speculators, there are also, but fewer.
It is surprising that the National Audiencia, specifically Judge Fernando Andreu, does not act ex officio knowing all these factsand information about the events that occurred in the whole process that led to the intervention of the Popular, knowing that Europe refuses to facilitate the Spanish people the Deloitte report on which is based the outrage, the alleged fraud, the collusion with the beneficiary; knowing the manipulation of the CNMV or the Bank of Spain; with the evidence of all the spurious behaviors allowed by the Government of Spain and, more specifically, by Luis de Guindos, presumed accomplice in the plunder and ruin of more than 300,000 Spanish families.
It is surprising that the Justice does not accept to stop this sangria of pains, ruins, mistreatment, violation of the human rights or provocation of deaths and diseases to thousands of Spaniards without feeling anything in its conscience.
Do the minutes, gifts, gratuities, concessions, donations more or less spurious or unjustified matter?
All that surrounds the operation of the Popular is dark, as was the Middle Ages, but everything leads to the same fate:
to protect Santander, no matter what the fault of 300,000 citizens, of which more than 240,000 are pensioners, more than 70% of the total.
The executive, legislative and judicial powers and the head of state - Rajoy and his PP court - have to prove that they are not prevaricating in the Santander-Popular case.
They have to demonstrate how their behaviors of responsibility, whether fair or not, differ from the Catalan challenge of neglect and presumed connivance with the 300,000 ruined by Popular's intervention in favor of Santander and others.
Mariano Rajoy himself and his government do not stop saying that the law must be fulfilled when referring to the Catalan referendum.
However, the law has been violated in the seizure of the Popular and has not heard the Minister of Justice, the Treasury, the President, Felipe de Borbón or, of course, Luis de Guindos defend the law in this case.
The law is to be fulfilled by all, both by the Catalans as by Santander or by the Government itself, reports Diario16.
The opacity of all institutions in Europe is the demonstration that they, together with the Spanish Government, ruined the 300,000 shareholders of the Popular to give away the entity to Santander.
Again, the European institutions - in the hands of the neoliberal and corrupt right - are proving that they were one of the fundamental accomplices to be able to execute the seizure operation of the Banco Popular and so that the ruin of another 300,000 Spanish citizens would serve to rescue the Santander, bank of the Nazi Franco.
Economy Minister Luis de Guindos will attend the congressional commission at five in the afternoon to explain why his department appointed former minister José Manuel Soria to a high position of the World Bank, although he had to resign in April for appearing in the 'papers of Panama'.
The government in office of the PP insisted on Monday to disregard the appointment of José Manuel Soria as an aspiring executive director of the World Bank, despite increasing criticism of the appointment even in its ranks.
This is not the first time that the promotion of leaders linked to the PP causes discomfort.
Angel Ron (54 years old) will earn 1.1 million euros per year annually, according to sources at the bank.
The Popular Bank's vice president, Roberto Higuera, told shareholders that the pension would be "until his retirement."
To cover this pension, the bank has provided a fund amounting to 24.21 million. Angel Ron was relieved yesterday of his post after something more than 12 years at the head of the entity.
