Miguel Blesa de la Parra (8 August 1947 – 19 July 2017) was a Spanish banker, the chairman of the Spanish bank Caja Madrid from 1996 to 2009.

[1][2] In February 2017, Blesa was sentenced to a six-year jail term in connection with the widespread misuse of company credit cards during his long tenure as chairman of Caja Madrid,[3] but remained at liberty pending the outcome of an appeal to the Supreme Court.

[4] Blesa was found dead on a private hunting estate in the province of Córdoba on 19 July 2017, with a shotgun wound to the chest.

[6] As the death of Rita Barberá and the others from Gürtel (Francisco Yáñez, María del Mar Rodríguez and Isidro Cuberos) Blesa's heirs are liable for damages to the harmed.

[7] He received a Golden Medal from the Real Academia de la Historia,[8] and was awarded as Mejor Presidente de Entidad Financiera 2005 by Banca 15.