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bal Montoro of the existence of hidden money in Switzerland and the Minister of Finance guaranteed him “absolute confidentiality” if he regularized it with the tax amnesty. The secret greetings to Rodrigo Rato at a funeral Rodrigo Rato does not want to be “another Bárcenas”: he has confessed that he will not pull the rug against the PP The National Court clarifies that it has not authorized the search of Rato's house Rodrigo Rato. Rodrigo Rato.  Rodrigo Rato's remuneration as managing director of the International Monetary Fund has come under suspicion. It is the period in which researchers have focused their research. The reason is that he is the only one in which a possible crime of money laundering has not prescribed and it was not possible to regularize that money with the tax amnesty that he took advantage of in . Rato decided to take advantage of the tax amnesty in to regularize his assets, coinciding with the death of one of his brothers , Ramón Rato.

People who shared professional activity with the former minister at that time explain to El Confidencial Digital that Rodrigo Rato “ found himself in a significant financial disorder ,” after the death of his brother, who until then had been in charge of managing most of the fortune harvested in the past by the family. The three years at the head of the IMF, under suspicion That situation, they say, was a “hard blow” for Rato . He decided C Level Contact List that he had to act with the utmost diligence. “ It was not expected that he would be able to find that mess, debts . when he had to assume the management of the family assets due to the sudden death of Ramón,” say sources of his utmost confidence. The “financial disorder,” as Rato himself described it, was only known to those closest to him at that time. His advisors reaffirmed his thesis: it was totally necessary to immediately separate the money that he had just received from that related to his professional activities during his time as managing director of the IMF or, even, of the times.



Of him as advisor to Lazard. The tax amnesty, approved by the Government of Mariano Rajoy in allowed the declaration of income and hidden assets abroad for the years  and . This circumstance worried him greatly: it could lead the Treasury to force him to prove whether the money in accounts abroad came from economic activities corresponding to previous years. Furthermore, since the crime of money laundering prescribes after 10 years, another of his fears was that it could be understood that the returns were not prior to 2004 either , since he was also still economic vice president of the Aznar Government and was subject to strict controls as a public representative. Thus, everything is limited to the period between 2004 and 2007, which are precisely the three years that coincide with his time at the IMF . He conveyed his concern to Minister Montoro himself The sources to which ECD had access assure that the former vice president began to mobilize to explore how he could regularize this situation .