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Spanish Activists Looking To Sue Former Bank Manager For Financial Crisis
12 Jun 2012 by liam kruger in Business, Culture, Economics, Politics, Very Cool, Vibe, Video, World
Spanish activists are raising a large private fund to pay for a civil action suit against Rodrigo Rato – the former chairman of Bankia, one of the banks central to the Spanish financial crisis. The fundraiser is following the usual decentralized online-activist structure, with members organizing themselves under the #QuerellaPaRato (“Lawsuit for Rato”) hashtag.
The fund is aiming to raise the 15 000 euros that filing the lawsuit is expected to cost.
Says Al Jazeera:
In the first 12 hours of the campaign, organisers reported that dozens of Bankia shareholders, as well as former employees, agreed to testify against Rato in a lawsuit. According to a survey by Spanish paper El País, 91% of respondents want an investigation of Rato’s management of Bankia…
“Bankia did not last even two years; how is it that Rodrigo Rato leaves his position, hastily and receiving millions in compensations without anyone in an institution having asked nothing before, without anyone asking for an explanation, and nobody asking for an investigation? The Spanish political class is complicit in covering up anything that could have happened, and even more troubling, will continue to do so.”
The funds raised are also going towards hiring private investigators to build up a dossier on Rato’s wrongdoings when heading Bankia, in the hopes of generating enough evidence to bring criminal charges against the disgraced banker.
[Source: AJ]
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