There are few issues more routine than a married couple talking about another wedding, almost always in the same terms: are they spending a lot, what are they doing. The important news in the conversations released by the UCO between Karmele Atxuxa and her husband Antxon Alonso – pending context – is that they already know where the couple they are talking about, Santos Cerdán and Paqui Muñoz, get their money from. From a company owned by Antxon Alonso, according to the Guardia Civil, 45% owned by Cerdán, 75% of whose profits came from Acciona in exchange for a commission. (It is nevertheless striking that political corruption always gives so much importance to the corrupt and so little to the corrupters). The novelty of these intercepted conversations is therefore not the origin of the money, but its destination. The black money paradox: the more you earn, the less you can teach. But Paqui, as Karmele Atxuxa tells her husband, is already known to all the shop assistants at El Corte Inglés. And “they are not discreet at all.” Then she tells her husband to call Cerdán, Paqui’s husband, to make an intervention: “You have to take her between the two of you and speak to her clearly.” In One of ours, Jimmy Conway’s (Robert De Niro) gang hits the Lufthansa cargo terminal. The order is clear: after the millionaire robbery everyone will keep a low profile. But one drink before Christmas ruins everything. De Niro watches, amazed, as the Mafia Paquis appear at the bar wearing suits, jewelry, and suits; and if a Cadillac pink, and if a white mink. At first there is anger. Then, after the petulants have been clearly informed and the petulants do not want to return their coats, frozen bodies begin to appear: the empire crumbles from its best shot and its consequences. It is first and foremost black money that does with the saleswomen at the Corte Inglés what it does with the croupiers at the casino: “When you see me, don’t say hello to me, much less hug me.”
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