In the plot of the Montoro case There is a key element that investigators are trying to unravel: how Equipo Económico, the law firm linked to the former Minister of Finance, diverted money allegedly paid by large companies so that the PP could pass laws tailored to its interests. To do so, according to the judge, the firm created a network of shell companies that issued invoices but, in practice, had no other commercial activity or partners other than those of Equipo Económico. Thus, the money did not leave the perimeter of Montoro's collaborators, who took over the business when, supposedly, the former PP leader disengaged (something the investigator also questions). And this is where the figure of Luis Miguel Triguero López, a businessman and expert in the creation of commercial companies, comes into focus. He is no stranger to those who have followed the fine print of scandals linked to economic and political corruption in Spain in recent years.

The businessman Fernando Martín, former president of the Martinsa property developer and of Real Madrid, admits to having paid a commission of 25 million euros to the Gürtel to secure a contract from the Madrid city council of Arganda del Rey more than two decades ago, when the PP governed the municipality. This is stated in a confession written to try to avoid prison. to which you have had access The Country and that Martín has handed over to the National Court, where the penultimate trial of the corrupt plot began this Monday.

Alberto Núñez Feijóo's tenure as PP president has started with a third sentence against the party for corruption. The first, for favouring cronies in public tenders, ended with Mariano Rajoy's government; the second, for setting up a slush fund, exploded under Pablo Casado's leadership; and now comes the related case in the Madrid town of Boadilla del Monte, where the awarding of public contracts to Francisco Correa's business group in exchange for commissions for party officials was established as a modus operandi between 2001 and 2009. The main convicted person is the former mayor, Arturo González Panero, to 36 years and 11 months in prison, but the PP will have to pay €204,198 as it profited from the arrangement.

Luis Bárcenas continues to disclose information and this Wednesday it concerned the former president of the Madrid region, Esperanza Aguirre. The former treasurer of the PP has implicated her in the collection of black money linked to donations from businessmen in the framework of Púnica corruption case, which investigates the alleged irregular financing of Madrid's PP and on which he has testified as a witness before Judge Manuel García Castellón. In this case, however, the money didn't go towards bonuses for leaders, but rather the envelope containing €60,000 would have been used to cover expenses for the campaign of the regional elections of 2007. According to some media reports, the ex-treasurer of the PP has identified construction company Ploder's CEO , Luis Gálvez, as a donor. Ploder later benefited of a public award.