Spanish Health Minister Ana Mato has resigned after a judge said she had “personally profited” from crimes allegedly committed by her ex-husband, linked to a major corruption scandal. <br /><br />She is suspected of benefiting from paid-for trips, plane tickets, designer goods and family events worth 55,000 euros.<br /><br />She has not been named an official suspect in the case but legal sources say she will have to sit in the dock as civilly liable.<br /><br />High Court judge Pablo Ruz has decided there is enough evidence to try 43 people in the Gürtel case, a massive kickbacks-for-contracts scandal, implicating senior figures from Spain’s ruling People’s Party.<br /><br />The party’s former treasurer Luis Bárcenas was jailed for managing a secret slush fund used to pay bonuses to senior members.
