Pedro Sánchez's fragile minority government has been under heavy pressure since news of José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero's indictment.Thomas Coex/AFP via Getty Images

Spanish police raid headquarters of PM Sánchez’s Socialist Party – POLITICO

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Spain’s anticorruption police on Wednesday raided the headquarters of Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez’s Socialist Party in Madrid.

According to Spanish media, agents of the Civil Guard’s elite Central Operative Unit (UCO) were deployed to obtain evidence for an ongoing probe into the alleged illegal financing of the country’s ruling party.

The morning raid comes just one week after the National Court charged former Prime Minister José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, a key Sánchez ally and longtime Socialist leader, with money laundering, influence peddling and other criminal offenses committed in connection with the 2021 bailout of Plus Ultra airlines.