The criminal gang followed a very simple pattern: they would bribe PP officials in exchange for awarding government contracts to companies who paid them a percentage in return. It was a sweet deal which proves to what extent corruption was part and parcel of the last wave of speculative growth in Spain, between 1995 and 2007.
The sins of the Partido Popular don’t make saints out of the disingenuous manipulators in the Catalan separatist clown car.