Overview
- The order, issued on November 1 by Supreme Court judge Leopoldo Puente, instructs the Audiencia Nacional to investigate cash movements at PSOE headquarters in Ferraz.
- A Guardia Civil UCO report flagged indications of an undeclared income source, including a section labeled “cash funds originating from the PSOE.”
- PSOE provided an internal document acknowledging roughly €1 million withdrawn for cash expenses and €127,000 distributed to José Luis Ábalos’s team from 2017 to 2021, with some expenses consolidated without individualized receipts.
- Testimony from former party manager Mariano Moreno and a secretary described lax controls, with Koldo García identified as collecting envelopes of cash, and the judge said the party’s documentation did not resolve key doubts.
- Investigators reported that some messages about cash deliveries align with recorded expense liquidations while other amounts appear only in recovered conversations, as the PP escalated accusations and Manos Limpias filed a false‑testimony complaint following Pedro Sánchez’s Senate appearance.