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The National High Court has asked the PSOE for a list of all cash payments made between 2017 and 2024
The judge investigating the 'Koldo case' opened a separate line of investigation to investigate cash payments made by the PSOE. The Anti-Corruption Prosecutor's Office has ordered the PSOE to request the registration of payments over the past six years.
The witnesses to that meeting told Ábalos that Sanchez and Otegi had met
For her part, the first Vice-President and Minister of Finance, María Jesús Montero, has denied having held this meeting and has confirmed that she is not concerned about what former Minister José Luis Ábalos may say.
This Monday begins in the National High Court the trial of former Catalan President Jordi Pujol for alleged illicit enrichment of his family
The 95-year-old former president has been hospitalized from mid-November until last Friday, suffering from pneumonia, and the trial will begin by deciding whether he can go to trial because of his state of health and be in a position to face the 9-year prison sentence requested for him by the Public Prosecutor's Office.
After sentencing the attorney general, the PP asks Sanchez to apologize, and Vox calls for general elections
Esteban: "The PP and the media close to him are trying to connect the PNV to Cerdán's network."
The president of the EBB, Aitor Esteban, has denounced the "attempt" to link the PNV to the Cerdán network of the People's Party and the "close media," but has stressed that "there is absolutely nothing." "We are calm and we will not be blown up by four headlines that are not real." Esteban has stressed that he only met once with former PSOE Secretary of Organization Santos Cerdán to negotiate a motion of censure against Mariano Rajoy.
Santos Cerdán denounces "lies and manipulations" when he leaves prison
Supreme Court Judge Leopoldo Puente has released former PSOE Secretary of Organization Santos Cerdán on the grounds that the risk of destruction of evidence is "very mitigated."
UCO's latest report has shaken Navarre's political agenda
President Maria Chivite in China has declared that there is no corruption in her government. The parties that support the foral government have expressed concern and called for caution. The opposition has insisted that Chivite is surrounded by corruption.
The Public Prosecutor's Office is demanding 24 years' imprisonment for Ábalos for charging commissions on mask contracts
On Wednesday, the Chief Anti-Corruption Prosecutor, Alejandro Luzón, presented to the Supreme Court a brief of provisional findings requesting 19 and a half years' imprisonment for former ministerial adviser Koldo García and another 7 years and a fine of 3.7 million euros for network commissioner Victor de Aldama.
Chivite said the UCO "does not link the Navarre Government to illegal matters"
The President of Navarre has stressed that it was precisely her Government that "requested internal and external audits and is collaborating with the Committee of Inquiry opened in Parliament" with a "transparency exercise". As Secretary-General of the PSN-PSOE, she has stressed that she was not aware of what was said in the UCO's latest report and has strongly rejected the facts "because we come to serve politics and not to profess it".
There will be news: the UCO's latest report on Cerdán, the House Action Congress and the 15th anniversary of the Etxepare Institute
A summary, in two words, of what will be news in the Present today.
The PNV has denied having requested appointments following the 2018 motion of censure and has nothing to do with the "Cerdán plot"
They deny having requested three public offices from the Spanish Government and reject that the Civil Guard has anything to do with the alleged plot of public works, after a UCO report implicated the party in the 2018 "applications for appointments".
UCO's latest report on Cerdán has caused dust in Navarre
UPN and the Navarre PP have attacked the President of the Foral Government, María Chivite, while the PSN has lamented the "unacceptable behaviour" of former socialist leader Santos Cerdán.
Sanchez about Cerdán: "We have taken political responsibility, and now is the time for justice."
The President of the Spanish Government has stated that the Government "has cooperated with the justice system" and "has acted firmly", so it is now incumbent upon it to "await the conduct of investigations".
The PNV asked Cerdán to appoint three public officials, according to a UCO report
The PNV denies the information contained in the Civil Guard report. Jeltzales say they have no connection with the corruption plot being investigated in the 'Koldo case' and claim that they know nothing about the requests for appointment.
The Servinabar company, linked to Cerdán, received 2% of the awards obtained through Acciona
The latest report from the UCO unit of the Civil Guard also states that Sevinabar made payments to several members of Cerdán's family through payroll, rental of homes or credit cards.
The Supreme Court has indicted a former director of Acciona and two centuries after the latest records of the 'Koldo case'
Justo Vicente Pelegrini, Tomás Olarte and Manuel José García are charged. The investigating judge, Leopoldo Puente, has lifted the secret on the piece on which he ordered eight searches last Friday, including the headquarters of Acciona in Madrid and Bilbao and the companies Erkolan and Noran in San Sebastián.
Jordi Pujol hospitalized for pneumonia
The former President of Catalonia faces trial on November 24 for a fortune accumulated and hidden for decades.
Acciona's headquarters in Bilbao and the Noran and Erkolan cooperatives in Donostia have been searched by the Civil Guard in connection with the Koldo case
In addition to the headquarters of Acciona in the Byzantine capital, officers have entered Madrid and Seville by court order. The premises have been searched but no one has been arrested. The Civil Guard has removed four backpacks from the headquarters in Bilbao.
Chivite says there's no sign of corruption in the government
During the plenary session of Parliament, Chivite said that 'it is as anti-system to cross containers as to spread lies that undermine institutions and democracy.' 'Let us not be surprised that when the ultra-right get over you, you are doing the dirty work for them,' he told those who suggest that there is corruption in the government.
Two journalists have claimed to have heard of Ayuso's partner's agreement before the attorney general
According to the former deputy director of "El País", his source was the Public Prosecutor's Office of the Community of Madrid.