02.08 - Spain Today News 19 July 2025

Spain Today - Last Spanish News · Jul 19, 2025 · 16m

Montoro Investigation: An investigation is ongoing into former Minister of Finance, Cristóbal Montoro, and his firm Equipo Económico, which is accused of a "pay-to-play" scheme to influence legislation for clients. An email from December 2013, discussing "paying this economic team that has direct contact with the Minister of Finance, Cristóbal Montoro" to influence the Congress of Deputies for tax benefits, is the origin of the probe. The judge suggests this practice "could have been habitual and known". Equipo Económico allegedly had a "great capacity" to connect companies with the Ministry…