Spanish Police arrested more than 7,000 people for corruption since 2010

USPA NEWS - The acting Spanish minister of Home Affairs, Jorge Fernandez Diaz, presented on Thursday the balance of his department and found that, since 2010, there has been a linear increase in the number of arrests for corruption in Spain, broken only by the significant increase of detainees 2014.

If there were 389 arrests for corruption in Spain in 2010, in 2015 there were a total of 2,442 detainees. The same applies to the total known to the security forces in Spain facts. There is an increase of research in 2010, were 366, and in 2015 have exceeded 1,000, in particular 1,108. In this context, the minister of Home Affairs stressed that the Government's action "has been forceful and determined against corruption in our country during the last Legislature."

During the X Legislature, nearly 40 different criminal types related to corruption were detected in Spain. The most common type that goes unnoticed when it comes to corruption, are fraud against Social Security, which represent 16.3% of the total, along with public finance fraud (8.1%). Both "affect all citizens, although we are not aware of it," said the minister.

In addition, they also highlight the crimes of bribery, accounting for 12.5%, administrative trespass 9.8%, embezzlement with 8.2% and corporate offenses representing 4.6%, among others. Along the X Legislature, the Social Security fraud amounted to 530 crime, money laundering totaled 138 crimes, 407 crimes were bribery, administrative malfeasance recorded 320 crimes against fraud public finances recorded a total of 263 offenses and corporate crimes, a total of 151, among others.

Combating fraud

Moreover, the National Police and Civil Guard investigated last year 6,488 companies, has been proposed for breach of 2,057 companies have been detected 847 fictitious companies, have been inspected 11,424 workplaces were detected 4,616 administrative violations the Immigration law in Spain and eventually detected fraud in 2015 exceeded EUR 79 million.

The acting Minister of Home Affairs, Jorge Fernandez Diaz, stressed that the Government and the Ministry of Home Affairs have fought fraud "forcefully and determination" since the beginning of the last Legislature, and thanked and congratulated the Security Forces of the State "that have taken all their ability to make our country a safer place, a task which undoubtedly will continue relentlessly."