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On November 7, 2007, a man unknown to the media, José Luis Peñas, gave the Economic and Tax Crime Unit, the UDEF, an mp3 containing 18 hours of recorded conversations between Francisco Correa, another name that we had never heard of at the time, and PP businessmen and politicians. These recordings revealed the biggest case of political corruption in our democracy, and with this denunciation, José Luis Peñas, who had been the Councillor for Urban Planning at Majadahonda City Hall, activated a time bomb that exploded eleven years later, in 2018, with a devastating sentence followed by a motion of censure that kicked Mariano Rajoy out of La Moncloa. This week the Government granted a partial pardon to José Luis Peñas, who was also convicted of corruption in this plot. With the journalists from the Courts section of elDiario.es, Elena Herrera and Alberto Pozas, we recall how the Gürtel case began in the National Court thanks to the denunciation by José Luis Peñas, former councillor for Urban Planning at Majadahonda City Hall and first-hand witness of the plot. We also look at the figure of the whistleblower of major corruption scandals and the judicial circumstances that surround these “repentant” characters, compared to other people who file complaints for personal ethics. *** Send us a voice note via WhatsApp telling us a story you know or a sound that catches your attention. The important thing is that it is something that has to do with you. Save us in your agenda as “A topic of the day”. The number is 699 518 743. ???? You can listen to it now at: https://www.eldiario.es/132_b3ad17 Become a member of elDiario.es and get a free year of Podimo, the platform with thousands of podcasts and audiobooks. You have all the details at elDiario.es/podimo If you like this podcast, in the 'Al día' newsletter we summarize the key points of the news every morning in an email that takes four minutes to read. It is sent at 7.30am. Subscribe here: https://www.eldiario.es/blog/al-dia/s... ???? You can subscribe to 'Un tema Al día' in the podcast app you usually use: Spotify: https://cutt.ly/3AZqfmr Apple Podcast: https://cutt.ly/nAZqzto iVoox: https://cutt.ly/RAZqxJJ Podimo: https://podimo.es/aldia Amazon Music: https://cutt.ly/MAZqWth RSS: https://cutt.ly/5AZqE37 #podcast #corruption #news #spain #politics --- BECOME A MEMBER of elDiario.es: https://www.eldiario.es/hazte_socio/yt Subscribe to our YouTube channel: / @eldiarioes