Púnica case

[4] Francisco Granados, former number two of the PP in the Community of Madrid behind Esperanza Aguirre, was one of the main people involved,[5] in addition to indirectly giving his name to the operation.

[1] The name "Operación Púnica", given to the operation by the Guardia Civil, comes from the scientific name of the pomegranate tree, Punica granatum, thus making a veiled reference to Francisco Granados.

The order recalled that Granados is attributed with "being part of a criminal organization dedicated to committing crimes of money laundering, against the Public Treasury, false documents, bribery and influence peddling".

[13] On 4 November 2014, Antonio Sánchez Fernández, former mayor of Serranillos del Valle, was discovered by the Guardia Civil taking boxes of documents from the town hall,[14] after being alerted by a local official to the possibility of committing a crime.

[15] In 2018, the main investigations were focused on clarifying the alleged links of the computer expert Alejandro de Pedro Llorca with political and business personalities, especially in the Cartagena environment.