1. Mario Conde served as chairman of Banesto from November 1987 to December 1993, when he was dismissed and the firm intervened by the Bank of Spain, in what would become the first major interference of a government in a financial institution.
17 Facts About Mario Conde
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Mario Conde's career came to the spotlight when, age 24, he became the youngest State Lawyer in the history of Spain, achieving the highest grade ever attained in the corps.
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Mario Conde remarkably earned the title in little more than a year, when the average candidate took 5.
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Mario Conde was eventually appointed executive chairman on 30 November 1987, becoming the youngest financial chairman of the moment.
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Mario Conde, who stayed in preventive detention from December 1994 to January 1995, faced a trail of judicial problems.
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Mario Conde was sentenced to 10 years in prison in March 2000 by the Audiencia Nacional.
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Mario Conde was seen for many years as the ultimate societal role-model.
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Mario Conde was born on 14 September 1948 in Tui, in the province of Pontevedra.
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Mario Conde earned a Licentiate degree in Law at the University of Deusto, getting the best academic record of his promotion, full of Honours as well as he obtained the Extraordinary Prize of Degree.
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Mario Conde joined the State Lawyers Corps in 1973,1st in his promotion.
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Full of ambition, Mario Conde, who has been described as the incarnation of the paradigm of yuppie in the 1980s in Spain, became a major shareholder of the Banco Espanol de Credito in October 1987, and, soon after, on 30 November, he was appointed as the Chairman of Banesto, serving from 16 December 1987 to 29 December 1993.
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Mario Conde, who stayed in preventive detention from December 1994 to January 1995, faced a trail of judicial problems.
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Mario Conde paid a visit to prison fulfilling part of the 4-year and a half sentence that the justice delivered vis-a-vis the "Argentia Trust" case.
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Mario Conde was promoter of the political party Sociedad Civil y Democracia, registered in 2011.
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Mario Conde was elected president of SCD in its constituent assembly, celebrated on 6 October 2012.
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Mario Conde contested the 21 October 2012 Galician regional election, running 1st in the SCD list in Pontevedra.
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Mario Conde left the post of party leader on 21 May 2013, and months later, in September 2013, Maria Jamardo assumed as new President.