Spain's PSOE takes Ayuso's €6.3m penthouse to prosecutors
Spain's Socialist Party files a complaint for misconduct and embezzlement over the purchase of the Chamberí penthouse for €6.3 million through Planifica Madrid.
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The purchase of Ayuso's penthouse lands with the prosecutors
Spain's Socialist Party (PSOE) has announced it will file a complaint with the Economic Crimes Prosecutor's Office against the board of Planifica Madrid, the public company that carried out the purchase of the Chamberí penthouse for €6.3 million. The deal, attributed to the Madrid regional government, will be investigated for alleged administrative misconduct and embezzlement of public funds. Óscar López, the secretary general of the Madrid socialists, was blunt: "Those who took part will deeply regret it."
Reactions were not long in coming. Some see the move as mere legal propaganda: "It will be dismissed, as so many times before," say the most sceptical readings. Others interpret it as lawfare, a political attack against the Madrid premier, the only PP leader who stands up to Sánchez. And there is no shortage of the invention theory: if the deal were real, they say, the complaint would have waited until its famous tenant had actually moved in. But the penthouse, they insist, still has not a single light on.
The detail that unsettles: the supposed beneficiary has not lived in the property for a single minute. With €6.3 million on the table, the question is not only who paid, but why.
Spain's Socialist Party (PSOE) has announced it will file a complaint with the Economic Crimes Prosecutor's Office against the board of Planifica Madrid, the public company that carried out the purchase of the Chamberí penthouse for €6.3 million. The deal, attributed to the Madrid regional government, will be investigated for alleged administrative misconduct and embezzlement of public funds. Óscar López, the secretary general of the Madrid socialists, was blunt: "Those who took part will deeply regret it."
Reactions were not long in coming. Some see the move as mere legal propaganda: "It will be dismissed, as so many times before," say the most sceptical readings. Others interpret it as lawfare, a political attack against the Madrid premier, the only PP leader who stands up to Sánchez. And there is no shortage of the invention theory: if the deal were real, they say, the complaint would have waited until its famous tenant had actually moved in. But the penthouse, they insist, still has not a single light on.
The detail that unsettles: the supposed beneficiary has not lived in the property for a single minute. With €6.3 million on the table, the question is not only who paid, but why.
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