In his indictment before the National Court, filed today, the Prosecutor's Office states that all of them are accused of the crimes of fraud - by which proposes nine years in prison - money laundering - four years - and uprising of assets - three years-.
Also accused are Zoilo Pazos Jiménez and Alfonso Barón Rivero, both members of the Ruiz Mateos family, as well as the workers and collaborators of Nueva Rumasa Manuel Sánchez Marín, José Ramón Romero, Rufino Romero de la Rosa and Ricardo Álvarez Castaño.
The case goes back to 2009-2011, when the family company presided over by José María Ruiz-Mateos devised a "pyramid" system through the issuance of promissory notes, which allowed him to capture - without disclosing the delicate financial situation of the group - € 337 million contributed by 4,100 individuals, of which 289 million were left unreturned, according to Anticorrupción.
The thesis of the Office of the Prosecutor is that the funds raised "were redirected to a single bank in a branch of Etcheverría bank in Madrid, which the defendants disposed according to the needs" of the group, although they also paid with this money " Expenses of personal nature of the family clan ".
In addition, he points out that for the moment "the final destination of 82 million euros that the defendants withdrew in cash from bank accounts is unknown".
Anticorruption also accuses three people more of an asset uprising - Ángel de Cabo Sanz, Fernando Juan Lavernia and Iván Manuel Losada - for having agreed with the children of Ruiz-Mateos the purchase of Nueva Rumasa companies after the issuance of promissory notes , "In order to control the creditors' competitions (...) and to safeguard, as far as possible, the personal assets of the family".
It requests that the 15 defendants jointly and severally indemnify the persons listed as investors in the promissory notes and other similar securities issued by the group.
However, it specifies that any compensation ordered by the court must be "subsidiary" to the companies issuing such promissory notes and others "whose assets are subject to precautionary measures in this proceeding".
The document includes a list of 58 companies from the Nueva Rumasa area, including Meat and Canned Spanish, Dhul Group, Clesa, Bodegas Teresa Rivero and Cacaolat.
The indictment of the Prosecutor's Office is known a month and a half after the judge of the National Court Jose de la Mata announced the continuity of the judicial process initiated by the "Nueva Rumasa" case.
In the order of the Central Court Instruction number 5, the existence of indications to open proceedings against these fifteen defendants was detailed, but it exempted six of the investigated ones, among them the widow of the entrepreneur, Teresa Rivero, for not finding enough evidence to attest their participation in the facts.
Nine out of ten Spaniards (89%) describe the country's economic situation as "bad" and 94% affirm the same about employment, according to figures released today by the latest Eurobarometer Standard presented at European Commission offices.
This survey, funded by the European Commission, is conducted every two years in all EU Member States to assess the level of citizens' satisfaction and knowledge about the European Union and its socio-economic situation.
This trend continues from last year, according to the Eurobarometer, which also indicates that 66% of Spaniards are "worried" about unemployment and 34% because of the economic situation. Faced with this data: 57% of Europeans believe that the economic situation in their countries is bad and 63% think the same about employment.
BETWEEN THE PRIVATE AND THE PUBLIC
Job creation is closely linked to the business fabric and about two thirds of the citizens, both European (63%) and Spanish (65%) see the private sector better positioned than the public to create such jobs. These figures are very stable compared to those collected in the autumn of 2015, when 64% of Europeans and 62% of Spaniards agreed with this statement.
Also 56% of Europeans consider it a good idea to use public money to stimulate investment in the private sector, down to 42% in the case of the Spanish. These figures have not changed until fall 2015, when 58% of Europeans and 46% of Spaniards were of the same opinion.
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