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Jorge Trías

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Jorge Trías
Member of the Congress of Deputies
In office
13 March 1996 – 5 April 2000
ConstituencyBarcelona
Personal details
Born
Jorge Trías Sagnier

13 July 1948
Barcelona, Spain
Died13 April 2022(2022-04-13) (aged 73)
Barcelona, Spain
Political partyPP
EducationUniversity of Barcelona
OccupationLawyer

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

Biography

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A member of the People's Party, he served in the Congress of Deputies from 1996 to 2000.[1] He was known as the whistleblower in the Bárcenas affair, exposing corruption within the People's Party.[2] Trías died in Barcelona on 13 April 2022, at the age of 73, due to the after-effects of a COVID-19 infection, from which he had recovered a few weeks earlier.[3]

References

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  1. ^ "Trías Sagnier, Jorge". Congress of Deputies (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 23 September 2015.
  2. ^ Traís, Sagnier (20 January 2013). "¿Sombras o certezas?". El País (in Spanish). Retrieved 13 April 2022.
  3. ^ Bedoya, Juan G. (13 April 2022). "Muere Jorge Trias Sagnier, el político acorralado por denunciar la corrupción del PP". El País (in Spanish). Retrieved 13 April 2022.