Tag: Rodrigo Rato

• Thursday, December 26th 2024 - 09:41 UTC

  Ex IMF managing director to prison for the second time on tax fraud and corruption

  

  The former managing director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and Spain's Conservative deputy prime minister, Rodrigo Rato was sentenced on Friday to four years and nine months in prison by the Madrid Provincial Court.

• Thursday, October 4th 2018 - 07:55 UTC

  Spain's Supreme Court confirms jail term for ex IMF chief Rodrigo Rato

  

  Spain’s Supreme Court has confirmed a four-and-a-half year prison sentence for former International Monetary Fund head Rodrigo Rato for misusing a Spanish bank’s corporate credit card.

• Monday, April 20th 2015 - 23:12 UTC

  Rajoy admits the Rato case impacts on his party's support ahead of elections

  

  Voters in Spain's Valencia region, a bastion of conservatism for two decades, are likely to desert Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy's party in droves in May's regional election, a poll published on Sunday found, in a taste of nationwide politics to come.

• Friday, April 17th 2015 - 03:26 UTC

  Former IMF director and Spanish minister detained accused of fraud

  

  The former director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), Spaniard Rodrigo Rato, has been detained by police in Madrid. Rato, who has also been Economy Minister during Spanish President José María Aznar’s administration, is accused of money laundering and fraud.

• Wednesday, September 18th 2013 - 06:46 UTC

  Controversial figure named to advisory board of the Euro-zone leading bank

  

  Santander, the Euro zone's biggest bank, has hired Rodrigo Rato, under investigation in connection with allegations of fraud at state-rescued lender Bankia when he was chairman, to its international advisory board.

• Wednesday, July 4th 2012 - 22:26 UTC

  Spanish court opens fraud case against Banka former executives

  

  A Spanish court opened a fraud case against former executives of lender Bankia on Wednesday amid mounting public anger against the state-rescued bank.

• Wednesday, May 9th 2012 - 18:18 UTC

  Spain to unveil on Friday plan to clean up exposed banks to the property crash

  

  Spanish shares have fallen and the interest rate on the country's benchmark 10-year bond has risen amid fresh worries over the banking sector. The Ibex market fell by 3% and bond yields rose above 6%, a level seen as unsustainable.