José María Irujo

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

The Pandora Papers reveal that the German consultant called on the managers of a trust to send part of the income from this vehicle to the then-monarch in the case of her death

In this latest setback for the former monarch, inspectors are checking deposits and withdrawals made from 2014 to 2018 in the bank account where he used to receive his annual budget allocation

The Kokorev family are accused of money laundering for Teodoro Obiang, the longtime dictator of Equatorial Guinea

The institution discovered in 2014 that the astronomical treatise ‘Sidereus Nuncius’ had been replaced by a copy but did not report the crime until 2018

After paying more than €678,000 to the Spanish authorities in December, he has now handed over around €4 million to cover undeclared payments in kind totaling €8 million

Spain’s High Court is probing ties between American intelligence and a Spanish security firm that made secret recordings of the WikiLeaks founder at the Ecuadorean embassy in London

American prosecutors want to know the judge’s sources before cooperating in an investigation into whether UC Global gave intelligence services sensitive material on the cyber-activist

Prosecutors continue to probe allegations of money laundering involving a foundation linked to Juan Carlos I, who abdicated the throne in 2014

EL PAÍS has had exclusive access to a statement made in 2018 by businesswoman Corinna Larsen, who is being investigated over money-laundering allegations in connection with a transfer made by former monarch Juan Carlos I

Arturo Fasana, the former monarch’s fund manager, tells prosecutors he deposited the money in a bank account for Juan Carlos I

Owner of security company watching diplomatic building ordered a baby diaper stolen in a bid to find DNA