A former senior executive at the Spanish National Cancer Research Centre (CNIO) has filed a complaint with the Anti-Corruption Prosecutor's Office alleging the theft of approximately €20 million in public contracts from the institution that leads the fight against cancer in Spain and holds one of the most prestigious scientific accreditations, that of the Centre for Excellence. The Anti-Corruption Prosecutor's Office is currently reviewing the complaint and has not yet opened an investigation, according to the newspaper. The World And sources from the public prosecutor's office confirmed this to EFE on Monday.

Following the plan presented by the Spanish president, Pedro Sánchez, to fight corruption, administrative law professor and transparency expert Pep Mir speaks to ARA to analyze the measures, which include the creation of a new independent public integrity agency, external audits of political parties, greater protection for whistleblowers, increased transparency, and a blacklist of corrupting companies. What is it?

President Sánchez has presented the new State Plan to Combat Corruption, structured around five pillars and comprising fifteen measures. The political will to comprehensively address one of the main challenges facing any democracy: corruption, is always welcome.

The PP has found in the allegedoperation against the Central Operational Unit (UCO) of the Civil Guard, which he attributes to the PSOE, his main source of attack against Pedro Sánchez. That's why, a few days before the demonstration called by Alberto Núñez Feijóo In Madrid, against the "mafia" they attribute to the Socialists, the Popular Party has expanded its offensive in the judicial sphere.

The Anti-Corruption Prosecutor's Office has launched an investigation against Vox for alleged irregular financing, according to reports. The Independent and sources from the public prosecutor's office have confirmed to ARA. The decision comes after the PSOE filed a complaint against the far-right party in December for alleged opaque fundraising. The chief prosecutor of the Anti-Corruption Office, Alejandro Luzón, believes there is grounds to investigate the extremists, who have already been sanctioned in the past by the Court of AuditorsThe proceedings are secret.

The upcoming closure of proceedings in three investigations into the allegedly criminal activities of former Spanish king Juan Carlos I by the Supreme Court Prosecutor's Office will, according to judicial sources, leave open those kept by the Anti-Corruption Prosecutor's Office on possible corruption in international economic transactions in the awarding of the high-speed train from Mecca to Medina in 2011.

With his wife, Rosalía Iglesias, in prison after being sentenced for her implication in the Gürtel plot, the ex-treasurer of the PP, Luis Bárcenas, has decided to let the cat out of the bag and expose party heavyweights in court. Just five days before the start of the trial at the National Court for the PP's slush fund (next Monday), Bárcenas has confessed and has broken the truce he maintained with former Spanish President Mariano Rajoy. In a letter sent to the Anti-Corruption Prosecutor's Office, confirms the intention to collaborate with the prosecution in all present and future investigations, including the Kitchen plot, which also affects the former PP leader. According to the text, advanced by El País and El Mundo and to which ARA has had access, the ex treasurer claims that Rajoy was a "perfectly aware" of the opaque accounting in his party to collect cash envelopes, and accuses him of having destroyed a part of the so-called "Bárcenas papers" in early 2009 at a meeting the two held at party headquarters.