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Christina Thykjaer

Spain's PM 'was at level one' in scheme to rig public contracts, defendant in graft case says

Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez headed a criminal organisation that rigged public contracts and illegally funded his Socialist party, a defendant in a trial that has threatened the government told a court on Wednesday.

The trial of Sánchez's former right-hand man, José Luis Ábalos, is just one of several investigations into alleged corruption by the Socialist premier's family and ex-political allies that have rocked his fragile minority coalition.

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