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Spokesman magenta training in the city of Murcia, Juan Ruben Serna announced an initiative for the next full council asking urge the Executive Murcia to initiate contacts with associations of consumers and users of seats and boxes to articulate "a way to claim damages for handling banking index reference and its impact on mortgage thousands of Murcia "

The spokesman for Progress and Democracy Union in the city of Murcia, Ruben Serna, the regional government to demand that articulates "a way to claim damages from the handling of Euribor and its impact on mortgages of thousands of Murcia."

For this, the mayor announced that Murcia UPyD magenta training will present an initiative to the next full council, asking that the City Executive Murcia urge to initiate contacts with associations of consumers and users of seats and boxes "to collect all the information about the impact of this manipulation has had on the citizens of the Region. "

"Once all these data are obtained," continued Serna, "we want then articulate pathways through which those affected by this practice can claim damages."

"It would be logical that there compensation against a practice determined by the Court of the European Competition", after the fine of 1.7 billion euros for the European Commission fined six large corporations handling interbank rate in December last year.

As Serna remember, Brussels estimated that both Deutsche Bank, Royal Bank of Scotland, Citigroup, Societe Generale, JPMorgan and RP Martin conducted a manipulation Euribor between 2005 and 2008, the benchmark most used in Spain when calculating interest on mortgages.

"In an outrageous performance by these banks," and after Brussels imposed the highest fine possible to these anticompetitive practices, "the regional government has a moral obligation to do all in their power to affected families they can recover sums have been lost. "

The objective of this initiative, which has already been launched by the Government of Andalusia, the Corporation is claiming the regional government to lead as highest institution, "the investigation to determine how they have affected the interests of Murcia and support all claims arising from this action. "

Source: UPyD Murcia