‘Will Collaborate’: Spanish PM Pedro Sánchez After Police Raid Party HQ Over Alleged Bribery

Last Updated:May 27, 2026, 17:48 IST

Spain's anticorruption police raid Pedro Sánchez's Socialist Party HQ over alleged illegal financing, as probes widen to key allies and family members.

Spain’s anticorruption police on Wednesday raided the headquarters of Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez’s Socialist Party amid ongoing probe into an alleged illegal financing of the ruling party.

The 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, Politico cited the Spanish media.

“We respect the justice system, we will collaborate with the courts and there is the commitment in the Socialist Party that if there are new episodes of improper behavior, we will act with the same firmness we always have," Sánchez said in a news conference in Rome.

According to Associated Press, Sánchez, Spain’s leader since 2018, brushed off calling early elections, which will have to take place next year at the latest.

This comes a week after the National Court charged former Prime Minister José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, a key Sánchez ally and a socialist who served as prime minister from 2004 to 2011, with money laundering, influence peddling and other criminal offenses committed in connection with the 2021 bailout of Plus Ultra airlines.

Last month, Sánchez’s wife, Begoña Gómez, was booked with embezzlement, influence-peddling, corruption in business dealings and misappropriation of funds. The prime minister’s younger brother, David Sánchez, is also facing trial this month on charges of influence-peddling.

AP quoted the Civil Guard saying that the search was strictly limited to a probe led by National Court judge Santiago Pedraz into the possible wrongdoing of Socialist party member Leire Díez and others.

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