MALLORCA TODAY - Matas Trial: Day Three

Former Balearics vice-president Rosa Estarás testified yesterday in the Matas trial and indicated that she believed the ex-president authorised the tendering process that led to payments being made to the journalist and Matas speechwriter Antonio Alemany. She asserted that she would not have asked the president about the matter, as it was one for him and not her. In other developments, a former partner in the PR company Nimbus (its boss Miguel Romero is one of the accused in the case Palma Arena trial), stated that Alemany was paid commissions through the agency for work performed for the government, while the ex-director-general of sport in the Matas government has entered into an agreement with the prosecutors by which he has implicated Matas for having manipulated tenders in respect of the building of the Palma Arena velodrome.