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PP to Summon Sánchez to Senate This Month Over UCO Cash Findings

The opposition is invoking its Senate majority after a Guardia Civil report detailed cash-paid representation expenses linked to senior PSOE figures.

José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero en la comisión de investigación sobre los atentados del 11M en el Congreso, en diciembre de 2004
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Contrato de Koldo García con el PSOE en octubre de 2017
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Overview

  • PP leader Alberto Núñez Feijóo announced the Senate’s Koldo case inquiry will call Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez to testify before the end of October, with the timing likely set in the coming days.
  • A recent UCO report cites cash envelopes for representation expenses to José Luis Ábalos, Koldo García and Santos Cerdán and flags unexplained funds in Ábalos’s assets, intensifying parliamentary scrutiny.
  • The UCO also notes Koldo’s cash deposits into accounts tied to Ábalos months after being hired by the PSOE and his assumption of personal expenses for Ábalos, which investigators consider suspicious.
  • The government and the PSOE say all payments came from audited party accounts and were legal, pledge to attend the commission, and describe the summons as a political smokescreen.
  • If the appearance proceeds, Sánchez would be the second sitting premier to face a parliamentary commission since José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero in 2004, with questioning expected to follow Supreme Court testimonies by Ábalos and Koldo on October 15.