The judge of the National Court Santiago Pedraz has agreed to summon as a suspect on September 10 the former director of the Civil Guard Leonardo Marcos in the case being investigated against an alleged plot aimed at destabilizing the judicial proceedings affecting the PSOE and the Government.

The judge of the National Court José Luis Calama has authorized the UDEF, through the money laundering service SEPBLAC, to analyze several dozen accounts of the former Prime Minister José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, his daughters, Laura and Alba Rodríguez Espinosa, his secretary, Gertrudis Alcázar, his friend Julio Martínez Martínez, and several companies under investigation amid suspicions that all of them might have concealed funds or moved money of illicit origin.

In his end-of-political-course assessment, Pedro Sánchez celebrated last Tuesday the recent endorsement by the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) of the Amnesty law: “It has confirmed that we acted in accordance with the law to promote reconciliation.” “It was a brave but necessary decision that allows us to look to the future together again,” he emphasized. He even stressed that “a success of the Amnesty law is that the PP and Junts are reunited, nothing more and nothing less.” However, the President of the Government said nothing in his appearance about the fact that the Council of Ministers had just approved, in its last meeting before the August break, granting a partial pardon to Laura Borràs, which will prevent the former president of the Parliament of Catalonia from going to prison, as later revealed by the Ministry of Justice.

Begoña Gómez, wife of the President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, has informed Judge Juan Carlos Peinado that she is changing her lawyer for the jury trial she will have to face and for which she is being asked for 13 years in prison, according to legal sources.