“Corruption does not take its toll on the Popular Party.” This phrase has been in force during the long and endless years of investigation of the PP cases in the Spanish Judicial State. Until May 24, 2018. The judgment of the Gürtel case, first period (1999-2005), establishes that between Francisco Correa’s group and the PP, an authentic and effective system of institutional corruption was created “in parallel through mechanisms of manipulation of central, regional, and local public procurement through its close and continuous relationship with influential militants of said party, prosecuted here, who had the potential to influence decision-making procedures in public procurement of certain public entities and organizations that were directed or controlled directly through third parties”.
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