15.04.2016 - 13:38 [ Reuters ]

Spanish minister resigns after alleged links to offshore deals

Spain‘s acting Industry Minister Jose Manuel Soria said on Friday he was resigning with immediate effect after alleged links to offshore dealings which emerged after he was named in the Panama Papers.
Soria has denied all wrongdoing, but said he was stepping down to limit any damage to the caretaker government, the People‘s Party (PP), following revelations of alleged links to an offshore company in the British island of Jersey.