Overview

• Carmen Pano will testify in the Senate on October 15 and two PSOE managers are scheduled for October 23, with Pedro Sánchez to appear by the end of the month according to PP announcements.
• The UCO report documents cash circulating at Ferraz and includes WhatsApp messages such as Ábalos asking, “Have you given him the money?” and receiving “1,000,” plus audios pointing to funds handled by Koldo García and Patricia Úriz totaling about €95,437 of unknown origin.
• Investigators cite more than €8,000 in expenses tied to Ábalos’s “personal meetings,” including a Málaga hotel room paid by Koldo, while the PP files questions pressing whether illicit services were hired.
• Intercepted communications show Koldo advancing costs for the PSOE’s Secretariat of Organization and itemized allocations for Ábalos; the UCO notes reimbursements to Ábalos from 2017–2021 of €19,638 in cash and €18,592 by transfer.
• The PSOE denies illegal financing, defends the cash payments as legal and declared, moves to publish which parliamentarians received cash and in what amounts, and party sources say Sánchez declined to discuss the matter in the executive meeting.