Cash-in-hand dealings in PP headquarters 'reached over eight million euros'
Wednesday, July 17, 2013 @ 8:16 PM
AT LEAST 8.3 million euros in undeclared cash was handled at the PP government headquarters in Madrid in a 20-year period, according to documents on a pen-drive ex-treasurer Luis Bárcenas is said to have handed to the judge.
Blocks of banknotes in briefcases, suitcases and bags were reportedly passed around in the offices on C/ Génova in the capital between 1990 and 2010, claims a report in Spanish national daily El Mundo.
The reporter, Pedro J Ramírez, says the majority of this 'off-the-books' money ended up in the pockets of PP members, with party consultant Pedro Ariola being the main beneficiary, receiving 1.5 million euros in cash in hand and the person who received the second-highest amount of undeclared money being Spanish president Mariano Rajoy, with 350,000 euros.
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