In the midst of a political storm following the judicial indictment of former president José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero for alleged corruption crimes linked to the bailout of the airline Plus Ultra for 53 million euros in 2021, and now awaiting the National Court judge José Luis Calama to lift the secrecy of the investigation file, Pedro Sánchez has maintained his public schedule this Monday unaffected by this crisis, and has even tried to convey calm, despite the alarm spreading within the Government and the PSOE over the uncertainty of how this process will evolve. And how far it will escalate.

At the end of the reports from the Economic and Fiscal Crime Unit (UDEF) of the National Police, the investigators reach the “conclusion” that there is “sufficient evidence” to place José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero at the head of an organized network of influence peddling in favor of clients – such as Plus Ultra – who would pay, through a corporate environment controlled by his partner, the former Prime Minister.

The chair co-directed at the Complutense University by the wife of the Prime Minister, Begoña Gómez, was created following the established regulations and there are no opaque incomes in the accounts of the wife of the Prime Minister. This is the main conclusion that the UCO points out in its report on the case being investigated by Judge Peinado, which has brought Pedro Sánchez’s wife to the brink of trial.