Politics · Spain · 4 hrs ago
Investigators find missing and unreadable invoices in PSOE records
Spain's Civil Guard is examining missing and unreadable invoices in PSOE records as part of an investigation into suspected illegal financing of the party.
The inquiry is being handled by Spain's National Court and concerns the PSOE, the governing party led by Pedro Sánchez.
Investigators compared records the party gave the court with accounting documents it had sent to the Court of Auditors.
The court ordered the PSOE to provide records of cash payments and supporting documents from 2017 to 2024, after Spain's Supreme Court found indications of poor control over cash at the party's headquarters.
The investigation is also examining whether business donations concealed payments linked to public works contracts and whether money was moved between party accounts.
The suspicions include cash payments at the party headquarters and donations from businesspeople, but they have not been established as fact.
Investigators are trying to establish the origin of the accounting irregularities, while the case remains under judicial secrecy.
Spain’s Civil Guard investigators found missing and unreadable invoices in financial records submitted by the PSOE to the National Court.
The UCO found the anomalies while comparing party records with documents supplied to the Court of Accounts.
Investigators are trying to establish the origin of the accounting irregularities.
The inquiry is examining suspected irregular party financing, including cash payments and donations received from 2017 to 2024.
- Who
- The UCO, the Civil Guard’s Central Operative Unit, is investigating the records submitted by the PSOE.
- What
- Investigators found missing expense invoices and invoices whose details they could not decipher.
- When
- The review has been under way for weeks. The records under examination cover 2017 to 2024.
- Where
- The records were submitted to Spain’s National Court and the Court of Accounts.
- Why
- Investigators are comparing records as part of an inquiry into suspected irregular financing of the PSOE.
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Judge Ismael Moreno ordered the PSOE to provide records of cash payments and supporting documents covering 2017 to 2024.
The judge asked the Court of Accounts to send the party’s accounting documents, including information on donations.
UCO agents have been examining information supplied by the PSOE and the Court of Accounts.
- Investigating unit
- UCO, the Civil Guard’s Central Operative Unit
- Missing records
- Expense invoices absent from documents the PSOE gave the National Court
- Unreadable records
- Some invoices have details investigators cannot decipher
- Period under review
- 2017 to 2024
- Inquiry judge
- Ismael Moreno
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the list of cash payments made and documents supporting them, during the period from 2017 to 2024