The trial of a key figure in an illegal funding scandal involving Spain's rightwing Popular Party opened Monday with the
defendant pledging a full confession directly implicating the former premier.
A court in Spain on Wednesday acquitted the country's main opposition conservative Popular party (PP) of destroying
computer hard drives that allegedly had incriminating information on a corruption case.
The former treasurer of Spain's ruling Popular Party (PP) was sent straight to jail Monday pending a possible appeal against his 33-year prison sentence in a graft trial that has sparked a no-confidence vote against the prime minister.
Spain's ruling Popular Party (PP) will stand trial for allegedly destroying laptops used by a former treasurer being tried over a suspected slush fund, a court ruling published on Friday said. It will be the first time that a political party goes on trial in the country.
An unusual film based entirely on testimony by a former treasurer of Spain's ruling party who admitted running a slush fund has opened in cinemas ahead of a year-end general election.
A Spanish satirical comic is enjoying record breaking sales this week, thanks to its latest cover star - a cartoon version of Luis Bárcenas, the man at the centre of a corruption scandal.
A court probe has found that Spain's ruling Popular Party ran an illegal slush fund for 18 years, a judge said on Monday, reviving a corruption scandal that has embarrassed the government.
Luis Barcenas, the disgraced former treasurer of Spain´s ruling party, could be heading for the snowy slopes of the Pyrenees for a spot of skiing while he awaits trial.
The disgraced former treasurer of Spain’s ruling Popular Party, recently released on a €200,000 bail, has asked the judge overseeing his corruption case if he can take a 14-day holiday.
An ex-official of Spain's governing party reignited a corruption scandal on Friday, months ahead of a general election, by alleging Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy knowingly tolerated irregular
payments to politicians.
The unrepentant ex-treasurer of Spain's ruling party was released from prison late Thursday after posting bail pending his corruption trial, throwing the spotlight back on a scandal that has embarrassed the government months before a general election.
Spain's top judge said on Tuesday the penal country's system isn't up to dealing with the complex corruption cases it faces and urged the new justice minister to roll out radical reforms aimed at greater efficiency.
An eccentric millionaire has chosen Madrid as the latest location for his philanthropic Hidden Cash initiative, hiding banknotes in envelopes in the city's Retiro park on Thursday.
Spanish judges on Thursday jailed a man for 18 years for disguising himself as a priest and holding hostage at gunpoint relatives of an ex-politician disgraced in a top-level corruption scandal.
Spanish politicians and legal experts are set to thrash out ways to fight corruption in Parliament on Wednesday, just days after 15 new people were called in for questioning over their involvement in a massive fraud case in the country's south.
The former treasurer of Spain's ruling Popular Party won't be allowed to walk the prison courtyard for nearly five months after directing insults at Civil Guard police officers and refusing to be handcuffed.
Spanish police investigating one of the country's biggest ever corruption scandals have released a list of 'gifts' including plasma TVs, Cuban cigars and Mont Blanc pens allegedly given to top Popular Party officials to curry favour in return for public contracts.
Spain's Socialist Party has accused the government of pressuring United States channel Bloomberg TV to edit an interview in which Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy said, "There are things that can’t be proven" about allegations of illegal financing.
Two personal computers used by the Popular Party's former treasurer Luis Bárcenas had their data wiped off before a judge could study the contents in a corruption case involving illegal party financing.
Spain's ruling Popular Party (PP) has vetoed the opposition's attempts to have Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy testify in court in a corruption case involving former party treasurer Luis Bárcenas.
A confident-looking Spanish Prime Minister began his appearance in Parliament on Thursday by saying he hadn't spoken about the slush fund scandal surrounding his party in the last few months because he didn't want to damage Spain's image abroad.
Lawmakers will grill Spain's Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy on Thursday morning demanding he explain himself over a corruption scandal that has opposition sparked calls for him to quit.
The secretary general of Spain's ruling Popular Party has been summoned to testify as a witness in the investigation into allegations that the party operated a slush fund, a judicial source said Tuesday.
