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Spain’s anticorruption police on Wednesday raided the headquarters of Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez’s Socialist Party in Madrid.
According to Spanish media, agents of the Civil Guard’s elite Central Operative Unit (UCO) were deployed to obtain evidence for an ongoing probe into the alleged illegal financing of the country’s ruling party.
The morning raid comes just one week after the National Court charged former Prime Minister José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, a key Sánchez ally and longtime Socialist leader, with money laundering, influence peddling and other criminal offenses committed in connection with the 2021 bailout of Plus Ultra airlines.
The El Confidencial news site reported the UCO’s deployment was authorized by the National Court and is linked to an unrelated investigation overseen by Spain’s Anti-Corruption Prosecutor.
