In an article published by the daily, Jorge Trías Sagnier claims that the former treasurer of the conservative People’s Party, Luis Bárcenas, was responsible for a “B” set of parallel accounts. He acknowledges distributing secret bonuses to highly placed members of the party, currently led by Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy, between 1993 and 2010, and further alleges that Bárcenas had access to a Swiss bank account with deposits of €22m.
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