Madrid, Dec 20, 2024 (AFP) - Ex-IMF chief Rato gets four-year jail term in Spain for tax crimes

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2024-12-20

A Madrid court on Friday said ex-IMF chief and Spanish economy minister Rodrigo Rato received a jail term of more than four years for tax crimes, money laundering and corruption. The sentence comes after the disgraced former heavyweight of Spain's conservative Popular Party was jailed for four and a half years in 2018 for misusing funds while working at a bank. Prosecutors had alleged that Rato defrauded the Spanish tax office and lined his own p......

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