National court judge josé luis calama has sent a rogatory commission to washington to obtain data on those investigated in the plus ultra case. The measure is taken in a secret separate piece that probes the foreign network of the scheme.
Judge calama has requested information from us authorities on several people under investigation in the plus ultra case file. This request is part of a separate piece kept secret that delves into the foreign activities of those charged and their possible accounts outside spain.
The decision comes the same week that calama has summoned former president josé luis rodríguez zapatero to testify as investigated on june 2. The magistrate places him as the alleged leader of an influence peddling structure linked to the 53 million euro public aid granted to the airline in 2021.
Us authorities are already cooperating in the case. The department of homeland security has provided the spanish police with the content of a mobile phone seized from businessman rodolfo reyes rojas, former owner of plus ultra. In the police raids carried out last tuesday, agendas, phones and a safe were seized from zapatero's office.
