Reply #: They left (some) paper documents and a bill for the erasure!

[CottonBear]

What crooks! Who knows what information was lost.

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Mr Zapatero, whose Socialists won a surprise election victory three days after the bombings, said the incoming government had been left the bill for the erasing.

The newspaper El País reported yesterday that the job cost €12,000 (£8,200) and included erasing all email records.

The only records handed to the incoming government were paper documents, the newspaper reported.

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<http://www.guardian.co.uk/spain/article/0,2763,1373280,00.html>