Madrid: Several former officials from Spain’s ruling Popular Party (PP) and businessmen close to the grouping were sentenced from three to 13 years in jail, a court said yesterday, in what is only part of a wider corruption scandal.
The scandal revolves around Francisco Correa, a businessman accused of showering PP lawmakers and civil servants in several places with bribes in exchange for public contracts for his companies or those of his friends.
The corruption network is suspected of having embezzled tens of millions of euros in public funds between 1999 and 2005. This particular sentence focuses on 11 people and contracts linked to Fitur, Spain’s largest tourism fair—the trial of which took place between March 2015 and March 2016.
