Salvados
returns tonight
and returns with one of the characters who offers the most headlines in each of his interviews:
Mario Conde
.
In the premiere of the new season of Salvados (9:30 p.m. on laSexta)
Gonzo
interviews the former banker, who receives the show's team at his Sevillan estate in
Los Carrizos
to go over his rise and fall on the 25th anniversary of his first sentence.
But not only his rise and fall but also his relationship with
the emeritus
.
At his farm, one of the few properties that avoided expropriation after the
Banesto case
trial ,
Conde
assures
Gonzo
that a banker has more power than the Prime Minister.
The former banker recounts how
political parties were irregularly financed
from his bank , giving details and mentioning his own names.
In the early 1990s,
Mario Conde
was the picture of professional success.
With less than 40 years old he was already in charge of one of the main banks in the country, all the politicians wanted to be photographed with him and he was on the covers of gossip magazines.
A meteoric career that could have taken him very far but was cut short when the Government intervened
Banesto
and discovered
an economic hole of 3,600 million euros
.
In
Salvados
,
Gonzo
will ask him about his relationship with
Juan Carlos I
and
Conde
will admit that they had such a close relationship with the king emeritus that
he became his personal banker
.
Did he help you in his financial investments?
Did he place friends of the monarch at the head of Banesto group companies?
Did you know about his operations in tax havens?
Did
Juan Carlos I
buy shares with privileged information?
The former banker will admit to having used his power to stop the publication of information about the private life of
the emeritus king
and that he recommended the then king to appoint a friend of his as head of the Royal House.
Conde
ends up reflecting that the power he had then "was too much power in the hands of a
40-year
-old boy . I have never been a saint."
Did you feel betrayed by the
king emeritus
when he did not intervene to stop
Banesto
's intervention that ended up taking him to jail?
Did Conde
later blackmail
the Government of
Felipe González
with recordings of the then king?
How did that close friendship relationship end?
Gonzo won't leave any questions for the king and Mario Conde will answer all of them in
Salvados
.
Beyond the interview with
Conde
,
Salvados
will continue betting on the hallmarks that have defined the format since its inception in 2008 and will continue to combine current political issues with interviews and reports on social issues and denunciations.
Gonzo
will hit the streets to learn first-hand how the current runaway inflation is affecting citizens in the second installment of this season.
And in upcoming
Salvados
, he will focus on the other side of
the football business at the gates of the World Cup
to be held in a country like Qatar and will review the
Prestige
disaster when it will be 20 years since the shipwreck that filled the coasts with tar. Galician.
With
Gonzo
at the helm since he replaced Jordi Évole in October 2019,
Salvados
averages a 7.4% share and about 1.3 million viewers.
The
laSexta
space remains the leader compared to its direct competitor and has brought together more than 3.4 million unique viewers on average every Sunday.
Salvados said
goodbye to the course on February 6, with
Gonzo
's interview with
Yolanda Díaz
, which became the most watched of the season, registering more than 1.4 million viewers and a 9% share;
the best data of her in more than a year, demonstrating the good health of the space of
laSexta
, which is on the way to reaching 15 years since its premiere.
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