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Bárcenas goes to jail
Friday, June 28, 2013 @ 12:25 PM

FORMER senator and treasurer for the PP, Luis Bárcenas has gone to jail and will stay there until his case comes to trial.

He has been denied bail since Supreme Court judge Pablo Ruz believes there is a risk of the disgraced politician's absconding.

Bárcenas and his wife, Rosalía Iglesias, testified yesterday (Thursday) amid allegations that they had forged parts of their tax declarations between 2002 and 2006 and after Swiss authorities advised judge Ruz that funds had been transferred to the USA and Uruguay from accounts Bárcenas held at Dresdner Bank and Lombard Odier.

Read more at thinkSPAIN.com



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