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 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
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
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