'The kingdom', mirror of corruption | Culture

The most corrupt Spain is now subject to the discipline of Justice. The scandals uncovered in the last decade come to trial. Many politicians under suspicion have specialized in Criminal Law to seek in the Law how to reduce their prison years. It is the only hope to which they cling in their unsuccessful lives. They have discovered that the dark roads of the corruption They were not inscrutable.

The kingdom it speaks of political careers ruined by the ambition of power, of the poisonous attraction of easy money, of the tragic consequences of selling the soul to the devil. It is a restless and corrosive film where the director, Rodrigo Sorogoyen, shows with shame how some politicians splashed joyfully in the well of crime. The trepidante rhythm of the history allows to unravel many of the mechanisms of the pillaje institutional. Everything is fiction, but everything is real.

The kingdom, one of the favorites to the next Goya Awards that with 13 nominations, It is an animated photocopy of the great scandals of corruption that have moved Spain. It is a mirror of the darkest reality of politics; every detail of the criminal plot is based on the best known summaries.

Everything starts in Switzerland: Lezo, Punic, Bárcenas. Television reports on money found in Switzerland to an intermediate political position. The news is the preamble of the tragedy that is told in The kingdom.

The fruits of rapine always end up in the hiding place of the Swiss banks. The hell of some public leaders also begins in Switzerland.

Francisco Granados gave name to Punic case, a corrupt plot that was extended by municipalities, provincial councils and autonomous communities. This politician of the PP spent 16 months in provisional prison. His future is close to prison. He had immense power as an autonomous councilor in the Government of the Community of Madrid. Although her management was under suspicion, the president Esperanza Aguirre He trusted him and kept him there for many years. A year after leaving the Executive and moving to the Senate, Switzerland alerted the Spanish authorities of a movement of money in an account opened in his name. There he finished his political career and began his misfortune. A few months of secret research were enough to discover a mountain of bribes, prevarications and bribes.

In Switzerland the misfortune of Luis Bárcenas, the treasurer of the PP that for years managed a box b whose movements left written in some famous papers. Its cause in the courts, opened in 2009, was definitively distorted at Christmas 2012 when Switzerland communicated to Spain the fortune that the treasurer hid in the current accounts of two banks in that country, almost 50 million euros.

Through Switzerland, six million euros were also paid in bids for the purchase of a ruinous Brazilian company with public money. It is the origin of Lezo case, another corruption scheme that led to provisional prison Ignacio González, former president of the Community of Madrid.

Treachery. Between prison and freedom, many choose betrayal. David Marjaliza is a businessman from Madrid who shared with his friend Francisco Granados the pleasure of hiding money in Switzerland. The old friendship with the politician allowed the businessman to do millionaire business thanks to influence peddling, privileged information or contract fixing. That friendship took him to jail. And there he decided to betray his friend in exchange for freedom. In a very long confession to the judge, Marjaliza counted all his illegal practices to earn millions with the help of corrupt people he bought, his friend Granados among them.

The protagonist of The kingdom yells to an accomplice: "If nobody speaks, nothing will happen to Paco!"

Marjaliza spoke about his friend Paco [Granados] and ruined him [más] life.

"The fucking pen drive" In jail, Francisco Correa, ringleader of Gürtel plot, he ventures with his lawyer: "El puto pen drive male, without that pen drive They would not have anything, I get bad. It's the famous mess. If it did not exist, without this pen drive all this would not have happened. " It refers to the external memory that your accountant kept, José Luis Izquierdo, where the illegal payments that Correa made to politicians in exchange for public contracts were recorded. The pen drive It is the key in many corruption schemes of recent times. The curator José Manuel Villarejo, chief of the sewer, expert in illegal espionage for extortion and main reference of the police mafia, is sincere in a meeting with the general secretary of the PP, Cospedal pains, to earn their trust: "We try to break the famous pen drive"

Telltale agendas. There is nothing more compromising than an agenda. In The kingdom, that desktop material becomes a bomb of mass destruction that, at the end of the film, a journalist disables. Corrupt interests overcome the temptation of a great exclusive.

The ex-regional councilor and ex-senator Francisco Granados also noted in his diary some scandalous payments that the judicial investigation links to the illegal financing of the PP. The manuscript of Granados is full of initials, which leads to dangerous speculations and outrageous headlines.

Bárcenas, treasurer of the PP, used initials, but also full names to write down on his agenda the illegal donations made by businessmen and the payments of quarterly bonuses he made to his party politicians. Those papers have become a symbol of the corruption of a political formation. Podemos leaders refer to the former president of the Government as "M. Rajoy. " This is what Bárcenas wrote in the papers of the b box of the PP.

A yacht to celebrate the balls. The kingdom presents the corrupt people in a boat enjoying a day of sun on the high seas. They celebrate their success and one of them records a video while narrating what he is seeing. The scene is a literal copy of a boat trip that made the Grurt case scandal fatter. The Whiskers, lieutenant of Francisco Correa, records a video while his boss drives the yacht in which he travels Alberto López Viejo, a Madrid-based counselor sentenced to 31 years in prison for rigging contracts for the plot and charging illegal commissions, and his wife. Next to Correa, El Bigotes focuses on Alejandro Agag (son-in-law of former president José María Aznar) while shouting: "The star of Europe". He then directs the target to the bow where Ana Aznar, Agag's wife, sunbathes. "Saludad", ask everyone El Whiskers, "that you will come out in El Crónicas!".

That yacht trip recorded on video by the Whiskers was included in the Gürtel case summary. Another party, which was celebrated on the occasion of the wedding of Ana Aznar and Alejandro Agag It was paid in part by Correa and his companies. The documents that certify that wedding gift from Correa also came to the summary.

There is no wedding in The kingdom. It's the funeral of politics.