Spanish police raid headquarters of PM Sánchez’s Socialist Party
Investigators are seeking documents and electronic files as they examine alleged illegal financing and influence peddling tied to Leire Díez and other party figures.
- On Wednesday, Spanish Civil Guard officers raided the Socialist Party's national headquarters in Madrid as part of an ongoing investigation into possible financial wrongdoing ordered by a judge in the sealed Leire Díez case.
- Last week, a separate court announced it was investigating former Prime Minister José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero for alleged influence peddling tied to a government airline bailout, following December arrests of Díez and Vicente Fernández, former president of state investment firm SEPI.
- The investigation examines whether Díez, the Socialist Party's former 'fixer' under investigation for influence peddling, acted independently or followed instructions from party leadership; authorities will also search PSOE official Gaspar Zarrías's home, who was key in hiring Díez.
- Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez's Socialist Party faces another corruption scandal, prompting opposition leader Alberto Núñez Feijóo to declare at Congress that the case's 'extreme seriousness speaks for itself.'
- Judicial authorities are examining whether corruption extended beyond individual actors to party leadership; the National Court probe into accusations against a former party member at a state-run company will determine the scope of institutional involvement.
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Spanish police search ruling Socialist party’s headquarters in fresh blow to PM Sánchez
Spanish police have mounted a search of the headquarters of the ruling Socialist Party as part of an ongoing investigation into possible financial wrongdoing. The Civil Guard told The Associated Press on Wednesday that officers were under judicial orders to…
In Spain, the Socialist Party (PSOE), the formation of the head of the government Pedro Sanchez, was tightened. On Wednesday 27 May, in the morning, a special unit of the Civil Guard raided its headquarters in Madrid, suspected of trafficking in influence and criminal organisation for at least two of its leaders. It is bad news for a Pedro Sanchez already weakened by many cases.
Spanish police search headquarters of PM Pedro Sanchez’s ruling Socialist Party
Spanish police searched the headquarters of the ruling Socialist Party on Wednesday as part of an investigation into possible financial wrongdoing linked to a party member who allegedly tried to influence police and legal cases that could damage the party.
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