PSOE publishes 2025 accounts without audit as manager summoned in probe

The Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE) has published its 2025 financial accounts without the independent audit report that had been included every year since 2020, according to its transparency portal. The omission comes as a judge has summoned the party's manager, Ana María Fuentes, as a suspect in an investigation into alleged irregular financing linked to the 'caso Leire'.

Accounts without audit

The 2025 accounts posted on the PSOE website include the balance sheet, income statement, and annual report, but lack the external audit document. Previous annual reports from 2021 to 2024 explicitly stated the approval of an external audit. The consulting firm Ecovis Grosclaude&Partners, which had audited the party's accounts since 2020, stopped working with the PSOE as of 2025 Source: elespanol. The party's annual report itself notes that it "continues submitting its annual accounts to external audit," but no such audit was included Source: elespanol.

Judicial probe

Judge Santiago Pedraz of the Audiencia Nacional has summoned Ana María Fuentes and lawyer Ismael Oliver as suspects on September 9 in the ongoing 'caso Leire' investigation into possible illegal funding and misuse of campaign money Source: elespanol. The investigation examines whether party funds were used to finance "cloacas" linked to the case.

Party response

PSOE spokesman Patxi López defended Fuentes, stating that "she has handled the accounts with scrupulousness" and that "all invoices and contracts are at the disposal of the Justice, unlike other parties" Source: infobae. He reaffirmed confidence in her management despite the judicial summons.