The PP has reacted immediately after it became known that the former Prime Minister José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero has been charged with the alleged crimes of criminal organization, influence peddling, and forgery in the so-called Plus Ultra case. Miguel Tellado, secretary general of the Popular Party, has stated that this fact “is of extreme seriousness” and has linked Pedro Sánchez to the case.
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“We are not only talking about the former Prime Minister, but also about Sánchez’s main advisor. The Government must provide explanations now,” he said in a message on social media. “The scheme is collapsing and the bosses of the plot are starting to fall,” he added.
Specifically, Zapatero has been charged, at the request of the Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office, in a case investigated by the National Court judge José Luis Calama. The former Prime Minister is summoned for June 2.
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The PP has been very combative with Zapatero to the point that they even summoned him to the Koldo case Investigation Commission in the Senate since the Plus Ultra bailout worth 53 million euros was linked to the Ministry of Transport during José Luis Ábalos’s tenure. In that session, the former Prime Minister acknowledged receiving money from the company Análisis Relevante, owned by businessman Julio Martínez Martínez, who is already charged in the Plus Ultra case.
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