Charges were filed against José Luis Thapatero's two daughters in the context of the investigation against the former Prime Minister of Spain for unfair exercise of influence, announced the National Court of Spain, a national jurisdiction judiciary responsible among others for serious economic crimes and corruption crimes.
Judge José Luis Calama, head of the investigation, "made this decision at the request of the anti-corruption prosecutor who asked in writing on Tuesday to receive the testimony of the daughters and secretary of the former prime minister as defendants," is quoted in the National Court's announcement.
Yesterday, the former Prime Minister, historical and respected personality of the Spanish left, denied the charges against him before Judge Kalama.
Thapatero is accused in the context of the investigation of being "the head of a stable and organisationally structured mechanism of unfair exercise of influence aimed at detaching bribes through multiple commercial companies that appear to have been tooling to channel payments".
The two daughters of the National Court "are governors" of one of the companies called Whathefav, whose activity appears, according to the indications, to be linked to the network that is the subject of the judicial investigation.