Víctor Moreno Catena

Former Spanish PM Zapatero faces tax fraud and smuggling charges over €1.3 million jewellery stash as PSOE’s legal ordeal deepens

The discovery of jewels valued at more than €1.3 million in a safe at José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero’s Madrid office has led the investigating judge to open an urgent separate case for tax fraud and smuggling against the former prime minister, compounding a growing judicial crisis for Pedro Sánchez’s PSOE.