Spain's UDEF finds Zapatero's reports were never sent to clients
Spain's UDEF confirms that the reports José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero produced for Julito's consultancy were never sent to clients by the firm itself. Invoices were paid for the surname.
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Zapatero's reports for Julito never even reached the clients
Spain's Economic and Fiscal Crime Unit (UDEF) has uncovered a detail that turns Julio Martínez's alleged consultancy, alias Julito, into a bad joke. The reports that José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero produced for Análisis Relevante were supposedly so important that the company itself did not even bother to send them to its clients. That task fell to the company owned by the former prime minister's daughters, a kind of intermediation that made clear what was really being paid for: the surname, not the paper.
A shell company with no analysis to deliver
According to emails seized by the UDEF and Julito's own statements, the firm hired Zapatero to provide substance to its consultancy services, but those reports went straight to his daughters' company, which was in charge of forwarding them to clients. A detour that only makes sense if the real added value was having the former head of government's seal of approval, not the pages being delivered. In fact, the UDEF stresses that Análisis Relevante "couldn't care less" about the content, to the point of not even distributing it.
The irony does not go unnoticed: the same company that presented itself as a high-level advisory firm was billing its clients for studies it did not even handle. The question left hanging is whether those who paid ever realized they were receiving their reports through Zapatero's daughters, or whether, as everything suggests, the envelope mattered more than what was inside.
Spain's Economic and Fiscal Crime Unit (UDEF) has uncovered a detail that turns Julio Martínez's alleged consultancy, alias Julito, into a bad joke. The reports that José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero produced for Análisis Relevante were supposedly so important that the company itself did not even bother to send them to its clients. That task fell to the company owned by the former prime minister's daughters, a kind of intermediation that made clear what was really being paid for: the surname, not the paper.
A shell company with no analysis to deliver
According to emails seized by the UDEF and Julito's own statements, the firm hired Zapatero to provide substance to its consultancy services, but those reports went straight to his daughters' company, which was in charge of forwarding them to clients. A detour that only makes sense if the real added value was having the former head of government's seal of approval, not the pages being delivered. In fact, the UDEF stresses that Análisis Relevante "couldn't care less" about the content, to the point of not even distributing it.
The irony does not go unnoticed: the same company that presented itself as a high-level advisory firm was billing its clients for studies it did not even handle. The question left hanging is whether those who paid ever realized they were receiving their reports through Zapatero's daughters, or whether, as everything suggests, the envelope mattered more than what was inside.
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