José María Irujo

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

The owner of UC Global, which held a security contract at the Ecuadorian Embassy in London, also kept intimate images of a diplomat in his safe for alleged blackmail attempt

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

In a recent document dump delivered to the presiding judge, more than 250 extra gigabytes of files related to the surveillance of the founder of WikiLeaks were included — far more than what was initially presented by police

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

Britain’s Refugee Council has accepted funds from a recently-deceased Spanish historian. EL PAÍS has confirmed that the money mostly came from a trust with ties to Juan Carlos I, who abdicated in 2014 amid spending scandals

Emails from the owner of UC Global reveal that he sold data about the Wikileaks founder’s legal defense strategy to the intelligence agency. The U.S. government quickly sent a warrant to the U.K. to foil the activist’s escape plan

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

A son of Teodoro Obiang, who has ruled the African nation with an iron fist since 1979, and other top members of his security apparatus have been implicated in the kidnapping and torture of two Spanish citizens

Joaquín Romero Maura, a trusted aide of former king Juan Carlos, has bequeathed a fortune of uncertain origin to a refugee aid organization. The Jersey-based trust that holds the money was the target of an investigation

A Spanish judge has asked the US House Intelligence Committee to provide information regarding the alleged surveillance of Julian Assange and his visitors during his seven-year-long stay in the Ecuadorian embassy in London

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

Proving that US intelligence services learned about the WikiLeaks founder’s defense strategy by spying on his lawyers could annul the extradition request, say legal sources

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

The order is issued after EL PAÍS revealed that the Spanish-Lebanese fugitive Abdul Rahman El Assir is hiding in the United Arab Emirates

Abdul Rahman El Assir, who stands accused of evading millions in taxes, is thought to be using his old friendship with the ex-monarch as a ‘shield’ given his legal problems

A Swiss investigation has just been shelved, making the former monarch’s situation a little clearer, but he is still facing three probes by prosecutors at the Supreme Court

A Swiss investigation is unpicking the complex network of offshore companies used by the monarch’s ex-lover to hide more than €70 million

The German consultant, who was once romantically linked with Spain’s emeritus king Juan Carlos I, sent a €30,000 invoice to one of the Mexican’s companies for reasons that are unclear

The Spanish Trade Ministry wanted to find these managers via a transparent public tender, but that request was denied. Spanish firms committed to investing €200m but the financial crisis put paid to the plan