The Economic and Fiscal Crime Unit (UDEF) points out that, although the office of former president José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero would be the center of operations of the alleged influence peddling network, his house “is emerging as an ideal space for the channeling and custody of the strategic planning of instructions that entail greater sensitivity.” The Police detect a “logistical pattern” in the reception of shipments at home, such as boxes of wine. The UDEF asked Judge José Luis Calama to order the search of the house, but the instructor rejected it. Instead, he ordered the one from his office, where the agents found in a safe box necklaces, bracelets, watches and earrings that the secretaries attributed to an “inheritance from Mrs. Sonsoles” and “travel gifts.” Meanwhile, the UDEF continues looking for the certificate that proves that Plus Ultra was up to date with the payment of its workers’ Social Security contributions when it requested the rescue, an essential requirement for it to be legal. EL PAÍS has also accessed messages seized from the directors of Plus Ultra in which company leaders Julio Martínez Sola and Rodolfo Reyes confess: “Zapatero is in charge here,” in reference to his influence in Venezuela.
