Over the years, the socialist parties in Portugal (PS) and Spain (PSOE) have both pursued major anti-corruption frameworks, though their activity is unders suspicion following significant corruption probes into party ranks.
Spain’s National Police discovered money belonging to the alleged front man of former Prime Minister José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero. Officers found a total of €286,000 in cash stashed in unusual household locations, explicitly including a golf bag, behind bathroom fixtures, inside heating radiators, and within a Christmas gift bag. The front man is accused of using local and offshore companies to channel funds linked to an allegedly fraudulent €53 million COVID-19 state bailout granted to the Venezuelan-linked airline, Plus Ultra.
In Portugal, the political crisis that triggered the resignation of Prime Minister António Costa in late 2023 involved a high-profile police raid at his official residence (Palácio de São Bento). Investigators seized €75,800 in cash from the office of Costa's chief of staff. Police reports confirmed the money was divided into envelopes. A portion was hidden inside a wine box, while the remaining envelopes were tucked away behind items on a standard office bookshelf. The investigation focused on alleged irregularities and "unblocking procedures" regarding lithium mining concessions, a green hydrogen plant, and a large data center project in Sines.
Always quick to call others corrupt and to fill their countries with unqualified immigrants, the Iberian brother parties today show a rather complex Europe with an indefinite future, with policies opposed by the native populations but often sponsored by the Muslim Brotherhood, which aims at the moral ruin of the continent, so that it will later be easy to impose its laws.
Even in Brussels, police found and seized approximately €1.5 million ($1.6 million) in cash during a series of dramatic raids in 2022. The physical cash, which investigators believed consisted of illicit bribe payments from foreign governments like Qatar and Morocco, was discovered hidden in suitcases, paper bags, and apartments across the city. Once again, the primary political figures and suspects implicated in the Qatargate scandal are center-left socialists. They were all members of, or directly affiliated with, the Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats (S&D), which is the second-largest political group in the European Parliament.
