Ana Garrido Ramos: Difference between revisions

In 1993,<ref name=BBC161004/> Garrido Ramos started employment with the Ayuntamiento de Boadilla, working in the youth section.<!-- department? --> She became its head in 2007. In March 2008, Mayor [[Arturo González Panero]] chose to stand down<ref name="art">{{Cite web |url= http://www.infoboadilla.com/cgi-bin/contenidos_publico.cgi?runmode=noticiacompleta&IdINFOMUNICIPIO=1&id_categoria=3&id_contenido=13612 |title= Ana Garrido, la trabaja dora del Ayuntamiento de Boadilla que de nunció Gurtel, rompesusil encio para Info Boadilla |language=es|trans-title=Ana Garrido, the Ayuntamiento de Boadilla worker who gave evidence in the Gürtel case, breaks her silence to InfoBoadilla | access-date= 30 September 2016 | date=19 April 2013 | website= www.infoboadilla.com }}</ref> after a period of illness and went to stay in [[Costa Rica]].<ref name="art"/> <!-- translating editor added next sentence and ref --> González Panero was later named in the [[Panama Papers]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Los contratos del Albondiguilla con las firmas 'offshore' en 'Los papeles de Panamá'|url=http://www.elconfidencial.com/economia/papeles-panama/2016-04-06/contrato-el-albondiguilla-empresas-offshore-papeles-panama_1179585/ |trans-title=Albondiguilla contracts with offshore firms in the "Panama Papers"|date=6 April 2014|website=elconfidencial.com|language=es|access-date=30 September 2016|publisher=[[El Confidencial]]}}</ref>

Somehow the [[anti-corruption]] organisation [[Manos Limpias]] ("Clean Hands") received the document, which it submitted to the {{Interlanguage link multi|Fiscalía Anticorrupción|es}} (a special committee of the Spanish Procurator-fiscal),<ref name="20mins">{{Cite web|title= Un juez condena al Ayuntamiento de Boadilla por acoso laboral a una testigo de la Gürtel |url= http://www.20minutos.es/noticia/2051135/0/ana-garrido/gurtel-acoso/denuncia-condena/ |language=es|trans-title=Judge condemns witness intimidation in the Gürtel case |access-date=30 September 2016 |website= www.20minutos.es |publisher=[[20 minutos]]|date=6 February 2014|first=D.|last=Fernández}}</ref> which prompted them to start investigations into what was to become the [[Gürtel case]].<ref name="art"/> The 2011 indictment by [[examining magistrate]] [[Baltasar Garzón]] precipitated González Panero's resignation as mayor. In 2011 elections a new mayor, [[Antonio González Terol]], took charge. González Panero returned to his managerial post as leader of the Youth Section until, in 2013, he was accused of [[workplace bullying|workplace harassment]].<ref name="20mins"/>

Garrido Ramos developed clinical depression due to her treatment at work.<ref name=BBC161004/> In 2014, the [[employment tribunal]] of [[Móstoles]], Madrid [[subpoena]]ded Garrido {{lang|es|da por probada la situación de acoso laboral sufrida por Ana María Garrido Ramos}} ("To give evidence in the case of [[workplace bullying|workplace harassment]] suffered by Ana María Garrido Ramos"),<ref name="eplural"/> whereon the Ayuntamiento de Boadilla terminated her employment with an [[out-of-court settlement]] of {{euro|96000|link=yes}} for "{{lang|es|"''daños morales''"}}" ("moral damages"). Due to an appeal by Boadilla town hall, she has not received the sum as of September 2016.<ref name=BBC161004/>

Garrido Ramos has advocated a law to improve [[whistleblower protection]]<ref name=BBC161004/> ({{lang|es|Protección al Denunciante de Corrupción}}). Her case has been closed. As of May 2016, she had sold most of her clothes and furniture, rented out her home, and was selling handmade bracelets for a living.<ref name=NYT160514>{{cite news |url= https://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/15/world/europe/spanish-activists-push-for-laws-to-protect-whistle-blowers.html |title= Uncovering Corruption Is a Risky Endeavor in Spain |first= Raphael |last= Minder |work= [[The New York Times]] |date= 14 May 2016 }}</ref>

In 2016, she was nominated for the "Encina de Oro" Award.<ref>{{Cite web |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20160526112006/http://plataformaxlahonestidad.es/agenda/solicitud-del-premio-encina-de-oro-para-ana-garrido-ramos |archivedate=2016-05-26 |url-status=dead |url=http://plataformaxlahonestidad.es/agenda/solicitud-del-premio-encina-de-oro-para-ana-garrido-ramos |title=Solicitud del Premio SolicituddelPremio"EncinadeOroEncina de Oro"paraAnaGarridoRamos para Ana Garrido Ramos |trans-title=Application for the "Encina de Oro" Award for Ana Garrido Ramos |access-date= 25 September 2016 |websitevia=[[Wayback Machine]] |website=plataformaxlahonestidad.es |language=es }}</ref>

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