🇪🇸🇻🇪🌹⁉️⛓ — Spain’s National Police found escape tickets to Venezuela, jewelry, and watches worth between two and three million euros inside the office safe of former left-wing Spanish Prime Minister José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero. The Socialist Party politician had been under investigation for weeks for corruption as part of the “Plus Ultra case.”

🇻🇪 According to investigators, this is part of Zapatero’s “spoils,” at the center of a political and judicial scandal threatening to shake the already unstable socialist government of Pedro Sánchez. Zapatero, who during his terms in office consistently portrayed himself as a scourge of corruption, is accused of influence peddling, bribery, fictitious contracts, and money laundering in collusion with Venezuelan authorities during the regimes of Hugo Chávez and Nicolás Maduro.

🇨🇳 The former socialist prime minister is accused of leading an illegal network stretching from Spain to Latin America, with branches reaching China, and of having received at least 2.6 million euros over five years from various companies under investigation or with Chinese capital.

➡️ Last week, agents launched “Operation Tibet”: they arrived at Zapatero’s home in the early hours of Tuesday morning to inform him of the charges in the Plus Ultra case, while another team searched his office on Calle Ferraz, where the Socialist Party headquarters is also located, as well as the offices of Whathefav SL, the communications agency owned by his daughters Laura and Alba Rodríguez Espinosa.

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