On 23 November 2015, and after testifying in the Court of Instruction nº31 of Madrid, the judge charged Miguel Ángel Furones, then president of Publicis, and two other executives for the crimes of money laundering, against the Public Treasury and corruption among individuals after designing the campaign for the IPO of Bankia in a case known as the "Rato case". On 1 March 2021, after completing the investigation of the case, the judge definitively prosecuted Furones.
