Esperanza Aguirre remained accused for three years in the investigations into the irregular financing of the regional party. The Prosecutor's Office brief describes a plot for the Madrid PP to obtain irregular resources to finance its electoral campaigns and go to the polls doped.
Her figure was placed at the epicenter of the plot, since she was one of the major beneficiaries of box b. The public ministry talks about cash deliveries, the use of “like-minded” businessmen, parallel accounting... A whole network that started from the heart of the party, according to the indictment of Francisco Granados and Beltrán Gutiérrez, the former general secretary and manager of Madrid PP respectively. The indictment constitutes a true journey into the bowels of the MadridPP, says the former regional president of the Community of Madrid, who has been dismissed from her post due to lack of evidence. The former president threatened in 2008 to challenge Mariano Rajoy for the leadership of the national party.