Two police officers accused of accepting gifts including legs of ham and tickets to bullfights in exchange for doing favours for a high-profile Spain-based Chinese criminal gang have denied any wrongdoing.
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 vice president of the European Investment Bank is at the heart of a Spanish probe into the misuse of millions of euros of public funds that has rocked Spain's main opposition Socialists.
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.
Ninety-five percent of Spaniards believe that the institutions of their country are corrupt, according to a European Commission report published on Monday that described the problem across the EU as "breathtaking".
Spain needs to ramp up its fight against corruption by introducing key reforms aimed at greater transparency, the Council of Europe's anti-corruption group said in a new report released on Wednesday.
Jose María del Nido, president of Sevilla football club, has been sentenced to seven years in prison for embezzlement and perverting the course of justice, the club said on Thursday.
Spain isn't working hard enough to tackle bribery while crisis-hit Greece has taken steps to fight corruption, graft watchdog Transparency International said as it released its annual report on Tuesday.
A court on Monday sentenced a top ally of Spain's prime minister to four years' jail for tax fraud, in one of the country's most notorious recent corruption scandals.
A Spanish court Friday handed down jail sentences and large fines to some 50 city officials and business executives
over a vast system of property-related corruption in the glitzy southern beach resort of Marbella.
A Spanish newspaper has reported that the salary paid by La Caixa to Spain’s scandal-hit Princess Cristina over the last ten years has tripled despite the national economic crisis and wage cuts elsewhere.
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.
The scandal-hit former treasurer of Spain's ruling Popular Party (PP)on Friday asked the judge investigating him to give him access to €5,000 ($6,000) a month so he can pay his bills.
Gibraltar is pleased that Spain is "at last" thinking of taking its longstanding dispute over the sovereignty of the British outpost to international courts, Gibraltar Chief Minister Fabian Picardo said in an interview on Wednesday.
The disgraced former treasurer of Spain's ruling Popular Party (PP) continued to receive a salary from the party even after Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy entered office, Spanish media reported on Monday.
Spaniards overwhelmingly believe Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy lied when he denied taking any money after his name appeared in a corruption scandal according to an opinion poll
Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy looks set to avoid an appearance in the country's Parliament to answer questions about a corruption scandal involving an illegal slush fund allegedly operated by the ruling Popular Party's ex-treasurer Luis Bárcenas.
Spain's opposition socialist PSOE party on Tuesday again called for the country's Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy to resign in the wake of allegations he accepted illegal under-the-table payments while a minister in the 1990s.
Most Spaniards think the country's political parties are corrupt while almost half believe the private sector isn't on the straight and narrow, but many people say there is no point in reporting this corruption, a new report from German NGO Transparency International (TI) shows.
Spain's ruling Popular Party (PP) issued a statement on Tuesday once again denying that the party's ex-treasurer Luis Bárcenas operated an illegal slush fund which was used to make under-the-table payments to party officials.
Lawyers defending the imprisoned former treasurer of Spain's ruling Popular Party (PP) Luis Bárcenas resigned on Monday, citing "professional disagreements".
The head of labour relations for Spain's biggest employers' association, the CEOE, has come under fire after attacking the four day travel entitlement that employees receive in the event of the death of an immediate family member by saying 'people don't travel in stagecoaches'.
The Local's Spanish Face of the Week is none other than formerly-moustachioed ex-Prime Minister José María Aznar, who has managed to bypass insinuations of links to corruption to publicly criticize his successor and hint at a return to the political fray.
