Filesa affair
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The Filesa affair (Spanish: caso Filesa) was a political corruption case in Spain involving the illegal financing of several election campaigns by the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE) during the premiership of Felipe González. Under the scheme, the then-ruling PSOE collected large corporate donations for fictitious consultancy work that was never carried out.[1] The scandal's name refers to Barcelona-based consultancy group that were used as shell corporations for collecting the kickbacks to be transferred to the PSOE.[2][3]
In May 1991, it was revealed that a number of PSOE-linked companies (Filesa, Malesa and Time Export)[4][5] had been paid hundreds of millions for consultancy works that were never carried out; these funds would later be used to illegally fund the party's campaigns in the late 1980s.[6][7][8]
Judicial investigations lasted for several years,[9][10] resulting in the conviction of several individuals by the Spanish Supreme Court in 1997,[11][12] and its confirmation by the Constitutional Court of Spain in 2001.[13][14][15] The Filesa scandal would draw comparisons to the later Gürtel affair, concerning the illegal financing of People's Party campaigns.[16][17]
References
[edit]- ↑ Hooper, John (4 December 1999). "European politics plagued by funding scandals". The Guardian. Berlin. Retrieved 2 August 2026.
- ↑ Martínez Lázaro, Julio (23 March 1993). "Filesa recibió 1.000 millones por informes inexistentes y realizó pagos por cuenta del PSOE". El País (in Spanish). Madrid. Retrieved 2 August 2026.
- ↑ James, Barry (7 April 1993). "Will a Spanish Party Go Way of French?". The New York Times. Retrieved 2 August 2026.
- ↑ Martínez Lázaro, Julio (23 November 1992). "Las empresas 'puente'". El País (in Spanish). Madrid. Retrieved 2 August 2026.
- ↑ "Una compleja trama empresarial". El País (in Spanish). 5 May 1995. Retrieved 2 August 2026.
- ↑ González Ibáñez, Juan; Díez, Anabel (30 May 1991). "El fiscal del Estado ordena investigar a dos firmas que financiaron irregularmente al PSOE". El País (in Spanish). Madrid. Retrieved 17 March 2025.
- ↑ "Un grupo de sociedades financiaron ilícitamente campañas del PSOE en 1989". El Mundo (in Spanish). Madrid. 1 December 2000. Retrieved 17 March 2025.
- ↑ Ramírez, L. (1 May 2006). "Estalla el "caso Filesa"". Expansión (in Spanish). Madrid. Retrieved 17 March 2025.
- ↑ Martínez Lázaro, Julio (23 March 1994). "El fiscal pide que se desglosen del 'caso Filesa' las investigaciones sobre Siemens y Viajes Ceres". El País (in Spanish). Madrid. Retrieved 2 August 2026.
- ↑ "El 'caso Filesa' lleva al banquillo a siete de los 39 acusados". El País (in Spanish). Madrid. 23 December 1995. Retrieved 2 August 2026.
- ↑ "El caso Filesa agita a España". Clarín (in Spanish). Madrid. 4 September 1997. Retrieved 2 August 2026.
- ↑ "El Supremo impone penas de prisión para ocho acusados en el 'caso Filesa'". El País (in Spanish). 29 October 1997. Retrieved 2 August 2026.
- ↑ Peral, María (5 June 2001). "El TC ratifica las condenas impuestas en el "caso Filesa" por la financiación ilegal del PSOE". ABC (in Spanish). Madrid. Retrieved 2 August 2026.
- ↑ "El PSOE deberá pagar la multa de 259 millones a la que fueron condenados Olivero, Navarro y Flores por el "caso Filesa"" (in Spanish). Servimedia. 6 July 2001. Retrieved 2 August 2026.
- ↑ Yanel, Agustín (18 October 2007). "La trama ilegal que usó el PSOE para financiarse". El Mundo (in Spanish). Retrieved 2 August 2026.
- ↑ Gardner, David (5 February 2013). "Rajoy scandal threatens political rupture". Financial Times. Retrieved 2 August 2026.
- ↑ "Spain's poisonous slush fund scandal". Financial Times. 16 July 2013. Retrieved 2 August 2026.
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