The first is the Gürtel case. The second, a ruling from the Palau de Catalunya case condemning the payment of EUR 6.6 million of what was Covergència Democràtica de Catalunya, now PdCat, because it charged illegal commissions in public works and financed the party. The judgment also condemns four of its officials who are facing a prison sentence. And the third, 26 people around PNV, including the former deputy of the Local Administration Department of Álava Alfredo de Miguel, are being tried in Vitoria for the De Miguel case. Among others, they are accused of charging a commission of EUR 100,000 to a company in exchange for awarding it a number of public contracts.

A small part of the iceberg of corruption emerges in the Spanish State, which mainly affects the parties that govern in some territories. It was thought that Euskal Herria was an exception. But it seems that's not the case. In Navarre we saw, among other things, the case of Caja Navarra. And now, in the case of the baskonists, we have the De Miguel case in full judicial process. The PNV tries to differentiate itself from the processed people. But it is difficult to believe that some of the crimes charged to them are the sole responsibility of the defendants. Was it a personal benefit or also for the party?

When ETA was in action, these parties denounced the “revolutionary tax” and said it was extortion. Now, reality slowly confirms that companies have been charged a new tax on public works contracts. They are in favour of committees or omissions, governments and extorting parties.