Overview

• Internal PSOE documents reported by El Mundo list 21 cash reimbursements to Santos Cerdán from September 2021 to October 2024, including €1,072.60 on September 30, 2023 and €1,200 on January 31, 2024.
• Cerdán reinstated cash payouts in February 2023 after initially tightening controls and continued receiving envelopes even after the ‘Koldo’ arrests on February 21, 2024, with 11 payments documented through October 2024.
• The UCO has highlighted discrepancies in expense records and evidence of payments with money of unknown origin as it supplies material to the Supreme Court judge overseeing the case.
• The PSOE’s lawyer cites annual external audits and Tribunal de Cuentas oversight, while party sources shift responsibility toward Cerdán’s team and question practices under José Luis Ábalos.
• Ábalos denies receiving illicit cash ‘sobresueldos’, telling TVE that cash reimbursements were standard procedures for expenses because party leaders lacked credit cards.