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Manuel Moix is a Spanish lawyer. After serving as a public prosecutor in the
Community of Madrid The Community of Madrid (; es, Comunidad de Madrid ) is one of the seventeen autonomous communities of Spain. It is located in the centre of the Iberian Peninsula, and of the Central Plateau (''Meseta Central''). Its capital and largest munic ...
, he was appointed Spain's "top anti-corruption prosecutor" from February 2017.Royal Decree 156/2017, of February 24, appointing Chief Attorney against Corruption and Organized Crime to Mr. Manuel Moix Blázquez.
/ref> He resigned on 1 June 2017, after admitting he owned 25% of a Panamanian
offshore company The term "offshore company" or “offshore corporation” is used in at least two distinct and different ways. An offshore company may be a reference to: * a company, group or sometimes a division thereof, which engages in offshoring business pr ...
. Moix and his siblings owned an offshore company in Panama, which was apparently inherited from their parents. The company, Duchesse Financial Overseas, was set up in 1988, and in 1990 bought a luxury villa near Madrid worth approximately €550,000. Moix also received criticism for other issues. He is alleged to have attempted to interfere in corruption investigations, including the "Lezo Case", involving the governing People's Party.


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