It is hard to fathom that someone like Bárcenas, who has a Swiss bank account worth 22 million euros, does not have a single property registered in his name. This suggests that he has transferred his net worth to his wife's name in order to evade a possible court-order seizure.
Yesterday the Deputy Prime Minister advised, as elEconomista has said previously, that a quick and thorough investigation of the issue is needed.
The Bárcenas case hurts the Peoples' Party and questions how it financed the electoral campaign. But the scandal is not only the party's problem; it's an issue that affects democracy in Spain and for that reason we need to figure out what really happened no matter who ends up guilty.
