The former attorney for the state-owned energy corporation handled $25 million through a web in Panama, Switzerland and Andorra. He and his wife also bought luxury homes in Madrid and Caracas
The group of Chavista leaders who plundered the energy sector treated themselves to a high standard of living. New documents reveal exorbitant expenses on decoration ($7 million), hotels ($1.8 million) and cooking courses ($430,690)... All paid for with money embezzled from — or kickbacks related to — PDVSA
A group of former Chávez government vice-ministers used funds stolen from Venezuela’s state oil company to hire a personal coach for $120,000, buy $123,900 of luxury tableware, and planned to purchase a $350,000 Ferrari
Police databases have no record of José Ignacio Fernández Guaza, who claims that he was part of a ‘commando’ unit of 15 civilians that executed terrorists in the south of France in the mid-1970s
EL PAÍS tracks down the perpetrator of a fatal attack during a demonstration for amnesty for political prisoners that marked the Spanish Transition in 1977
The network that plundered the state-owned Petróleos de Venezuela (PDVSA) used a series of shell companies to acquire 19 exclusive properties in the oil-rich South American country, along with iconic luxury units in Miami
The frontman of the plot, Luis Mariano Rodríguez Cabello, bought a luxury property in Caracas for the model Claudia Paola Suárez and acquired a $5.3 million home for himself in Miami
Venezuelan businessman Diego Salazar – the cousin of former minister Rafael Ramírez – accumulated a personal art collection of 67 works. He did this while leading a plot to money-launder $2 billion in Andorra, which he and his fellow Chavistas embezzled from Petróleos de Venezuela (PDVSA)
A company controlled by Rocío del Valle Maneiro signed a contract worth more than $14 million with a group of Venezuelan politicians, who are being investigated for corruption. The plot also had a former senior security official from Caracas on the payroll: it paid him $1.6 million
The Camargo Correa firm devised a tax haven-based financial scheme to pay illegal commissions to Petrobras oil company executives
Luis Mariano Rodríguez Cabello controlled 11 murky accounts in the now-closed Banca Privada d’Andorra
Besides his work for Roberto Madrazo, the attorney Juan Ramón Collado allegedly also paid for former President Carlos Salinas de Gortari’s stay at a luxury hotel in 2011
The authorities of the tiny European country are withholding illicit funds that were deposited by 21 Venezuelan individuals into Andorran banks. These former vice-ministers – who served under Hugo Chávez – allegedly took bribes from subcontractors hired by PDVSA, the state-owned oil company
Eliminalia uses fake news, cloned websites and bots to deceive Google, according to an investigation by Forbidden Stories and EL PAÍS, which for the first time reveals the company’s client list
Diego Salazar, cousin to former minister Rafael Ramírez, shelled out $610,000 at the Ritz and $806,630 on watches while looting PDVSA between 2007 and 2012
EL PAÍS located Daniel Fernández de Landa and Íñigo de Guinea, involved in the deaths of a community leader and a soldier in 1980, during the Spanish transition to democracy. For around 40 years they have enjoyed complete impunity
A collaborative investigation based on a data leak suggests that Morocco could be the client that selected these numbers for potential surveillance in 2019
An attorney in Madrid used a group of seniors living in poverty to conceal the income from traffickers who had imported four tons of cocaine into Spain
Xavier García Albiol had the power to buy and sell properties or other assets thanks to powers granted to him via a company set up in Belize called Luverne International Inc.
A small agency created by Andbank, one of the biggest banks in the microstate, liaised with lawyers in Panama to set up structures for the likes of Manchester City coach Pep Guardiola
Since 2017, an elite group specializing in chemical substances has been monitoring an anti-Putin activist who was attacked with the Novichok nerve agent in August
The Russian dissident, who was poisoned with the nerve agent Novichok in August, discussed his recovery with EL PAÍS. He accuses Putin of the failed assassination and of allowing lethal substances to be made in secret labs. He also admits it is difficult to protect himself from another attack
Roger Torrent, the speaker of the regional parliament and a supporter of independence, was targeted with a program used by government clients worldwide
The Interior Ministry, National Police and Civil Guard all deny having hired the services of NSO, the Israeli company that created the software
A Canadian cybersecurity institute that investigated a fault in WhatsApp discovered that Roger Torrent’s handset was attacked in 2019 together with a hundred other figures from civil society around the world
General Denis Sergeev, who is linked to the elite military group Unit 29155, is being investigated by Spain’s High Court for two visits he made to Barcelona ahead of the illegal referendum on Catalan independence
Donations from the National Council of Resistance of Iran also funded other party expenses such as rent and computer equipment in 2013 and 2014
