Política

The judge of the National Court Santiago Pedraz, who is investigating alleged payments from the PSOE to the network to stop the open cases against the party and the Government, has authorized through the order the action of the Central Operative Unit (UCO) of the Civil Guard to gather information at the headquarters of the socialists on Ferraz street within the framework of this investigation. Among the requested documentation, the magistrate focuses on requesting the entry register of the PSOE premises corresponding to a period between 2024 and 2025 to know the date and time of visit, the companions of the visit, and the reason for it of several people investigated in this case.

The judge of the National Court Santiago Pedraz has requested from the Catalan Audit Office and the Court of Auditors all the expenses related to the advertising campaign for the elections to the Parliament of Catalonia that took place between April 26 and May 10, 2024, and for which the socialist Salvador Illa emerged victorious.

The letter sent by the President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, to the citizens, with which he began a period of reflection after learning that his wife, Begoña Gómez, had been charged, was the starting point of the PSOE plumber Leire Díaz’s plot to begin her activity to try to stop or torpedo judicial processes that affected the party or the Executive.

The judge of the National Court Santiago Pedraz is investigating an alleged scheme dedicated to sabotaging judicial processes affecting the PSOE and the Government and the payments that would have been made for them from the management of the socialist party.

“If there are new irregular behaviors, we will act with the same firmness as we have acted before,” Pedro Sánchez guaranteed this Wednesday from Rome, after the meeting he held with Pope Leo XIV while agents from the Civil Guard’s Central Operative Unit (UCO) returned to the PSOE headquarters to request information about the Leire Díez case.

The operational central unit (UCO) of the Civil Guard went this Wednesday early in the morning to the national headquarters of the PSOE, on Ferraz street in Madrid, to request documentation within the framework of the investigation into the so-called Leire case, according to police sources confirmed to La Vanguardia.

Former president José María Aznar has made a call to the responsibility of citizens to defend liberal democracy, which in his opinion is in grave danger due to the attack of the “detestable” right- and left-wing populisms. In his speech at the IX Ibero-American Congress of CEAPI, held in Mexico City, Aznar emphasized that “if there are responsible citizens” capable of speaking and acting “then liberal democracies will resist and freedom will triumph again.” He was not more explicit, although the message is very similar to the “whoever can, should” phrase he himself revived yesterday in a video, referring to the investigation opened against former president José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero.

José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero sold to the businessman Julio Martínez Martínez, located at the center of the plot investigated by judge José Luis Calama, a house in Almería in 2011, the last year of his term as President of the Government, according to the report from the National Office for Fraud Investigation (ONIF) submitted to the case file, which does not specify the exact date of the transaction.

The relationship between Plus Ultra and Julio Martínez Martínez, the friend and alleged frontman of José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, was very close and was further strengthened thanks to various contracts, which have led to the indictment of the former Prime Minister. On December 11, 2025, the judicial police searched Martínez’s homes. They found 268,000 euros in cash hidden in various places such as a golf cart. They also found several contracts that have proven very revealing for the investigation.

The DelcyGate, as the meeting on January 20, 2020, at Barajas airport between the former Minister of Transport José Luis Ábalos and the now acting president of Venezuela Delcy Rodríguez – who was banned from the Schengen area by the European Union – is known, has landed in the Plus Ultra Case file. The commissioner in charge of the Madrid airport on the night of the murky stopover, Jesús María Gómez Martín, was able to provide “favors,” such as allegedly avoiding customs controls for the investigated Venezuelan magnates, in exchange for “rewards.”