Jorge Trías Sagnier (13 July 1948 – 13 April 2022) was a Spanish politician.

Biography

A member of the People's Party, he served in the

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from 1996 to 2000. He was known as the whistleblower in the

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, exposing corruption within the People's Party. Trías died in

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on 13 April 2022, at the age of 73, due to the after-effects of a

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infection, from which he had recovered a few weeks earlier.

References

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