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The Gürtel Case

The Last Political Corruption Scandal of the Spanish Government and how the Catalan Independence is used to cover it

November, 2007 The Anticorruption Prosecutor's Office initiates the investigation of the Gürtel Case

February 12, 2009 Francisco Correa, considered the main head of the corrupted group, and their partners Pablo Crespo and Antoine Sánchez are arrested

June 24, 2009 Former treasurer of the PP Luis Bárcenas and the deputy Jesús Merino are related to the case

Summer, 2009 Juan Perez Mora, former member of the PP, commits suicide after cheat to Francisco Correa, considered the main head of the corrupted group

January 31, 2013 The secondary economic accounting of the PP called "The papers of Bárcenas" appears in media press

April 2013 Álvaro Lapuerta, former treasurer of the PP, is declared as non valid by "dementia onset" after live some domestic accidents

June 27, 2013 Unconditional prison for Luis Bárcenas, Former treasurer of the PP

July 14, 2013 The SMS between Mariano Rajoy, President of the Spanish Government, and Luis Bárcenas, former treasurer of the PP, appear in the media press

January 24, 2014 Francisco José Yáñez Román, figurehead of the former treasurer of the PP Luis Bárcenas, dies by natural circunstancies

January 21, 2015 María del Mar Rodríguez Alonso, wife of the PP spokesperson Burgos Beteta, has committed suicide

August 10, 2015 José Martínez Núñez, builder manager, dies hanged

August 13, 2015 Antonio Pedreira, Judge of the Gürtel Case, dies by a cerebral accident

October 29, 2015 Isidro Cuberos, former advisor to Arenas, dies in a traffic accident

November 2, 2015 Francisco Sánchez Arranz, former manager of Iberia, dies several months before

February, 2016 Leopoldo Gómez, a friend of the husband of Ana Mato, dies

Junio de 2016 The newspaper "Público" publishes recordings between the minister Jorge Fernández Díaz and Daniel de Alfonso demonstrating the bad practices and the corruption in the Ministry of the Interior [see more]

November 23, 2016 Rita Barberá, mayor of Valencia, dies in the middle of the investigation

July 19, 2017 Miguel Blesa, former president of Caja Madrid, suicide by a shot in the thorax

July 26, 2017 Mariano Rajoy, President of the Spanish Government, declare as witness to one of the country's biggest corruption causes

August 17, 2017 Thirteen people killed in the terrorist attack in the Ramblas of Barcelona

September 20, 2017 The Spanish Government sends a lot of police to Catalonia to intercept all things related to the October 1, 2017 referendum

October 1, 2017 The Spanish Police strikes to the civil population when they try to vote in the October 1, 2017 referendum [see more]

Octubre 9, 2017 The extreme right assaults assistants and journalists in a Catalanist event in Valencia [see more]

October 10, 2017 The Catalan Government try to start an international mediation with the Spanish Government

October 16, 2017 Jordi Sanchez, president of the ANC, and Jordi Cuixart, president of the Omnium, are arrested by the Spanish Government: They are the first political prisoners

October 24, 2017 The Office of the Prosecutor sees "overwhelmingly accredited" the secondary economic account of the PP: It is confirmed the corruption

October 27, 2017 The Spanish Government votes on the application of 155 and approves the CETA, the free trade agreement between the EU and Canada [see more]

October 27, 2017 The Catalan Parliament declares the Independence as result of the referendum of the October 1, 2017

October 28, 2017 The Spanish Government executes the 155 article of the Spanish Constitution of the 1978 to remove the Catalan Autonomy, breaking any type of mediation

November 2, 2017 Oriol Junqueras, Jordi Turull, Raúl Romeva, Josep Rull, Dolors Bassa, Meritxell Borràs, Joaquim Forn and Carles Mundo, are arrested by the Spanish Government: there are already 10 political prisoners

November 6, 2017 Corruption in Spain: Brussels investigates the possible misappropriation of European funds for the electoral campaigns of Rajoy [read more]

Noviembre 7, 2017 Appearance Chief Inspector UDEF Commission Investigation illegal financing PP: Mariano Rajoy has illegally collected money [see more] [see more]

November 8, 2017 General vague in Catalonia: the country is paralyzed to demand the freedome of the political prisoners

November 12, 2017 The police operation against the 1-O decreed secret of State: The Spanish government tries to avoid any transparency related to the repression of 1-O

November 17, 2017 The CNI finally recognizes that Ripoll's imam was his confidant three months after the Las Ramblas attack

November 18, 2017 State Attorney General José Manuel Maza dies in Buenos Aires, Argentina

Future ... I hope that the Spanish population open their eyes and take to the streets to defeat the corrupt government regime of the 78