The Gürtel case began with one Madrid mogul. Over the next decade, it grew into the biggest corruption investigation in Spain’s recent history, sweeping up hundreds of corrupt politicians and ...

At the start of June, the Spanish parliament voted to oust Prime Minister Rajoy after his political party, the Popular Party (PP), was embroiled in the biggest corruption scandal in Spain’s democratic ...

The former treasurer of Spain's governing People's Party has been given a 33-year jail sentence over one of the country's biggest corruption scandals. The High Court in Madrid convicted Luis Barcenas ...

MADRID — Spain’s national criminal court, the Audiencia Nacional, is a busy place these days, as it hosts around 300 witnesses and 37 defendants, many of them key figures in Mariano Rajoy’s Popular ...

Deposed PM took his own advice and stayed strong – but in the end he was powerless In January 2012, Mariano Rajoy texted a friend who was going through a rough patch. “Luis, stay strong,” he wrote.

Spain's ruling conservatives have been found guilty of benefiting from illegal funds in a mega graft trial in which 29 former officials, businessmen and their spouses were also jailed, a court ...