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The judge arrives at Moncloa Palace as Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez is set to testify in a preliminary graft probe into his wife's business dealings, a case that has piled pressure on his fragile minority government. He has denied any wrongdoing by his wife, Begona Gomez, and dismissed the allegations as part of a right-wing smear campaign against his leftist government. IMAGES
Three decades later, the appeal trial of the non-ministerial financial part of the 'Karachi scandal' opens: six men are suspected of having played a role in a system of kickbacks on arms contracts that boosted the presidential campaign of former French Prime Minister Edouard Balladur in 1995. IMAGES
Peruvian President Dina Boluarte's convoy leaves the Peruvian Prosecutor's building in Lima after she appeared before prosecutors for questioning over her Rolex watches, expensive jewelry, and unexplained bank deposits, in a scandal that has shaken the country's fragile government. IMAGES
Nicolas Sarkozy leaves the courtroom after the Paris court of appeal lightened a one-year prison sentence for the former French president over illegal campaign financing, saying he needed to spend only half that time behind bars. But while lighter than the original sentence, Wednesday's ruling was still harsher than the one-year suspended sentence that prosecutors called for. IMAGES
Supporters of former Peruvian president Alberto Fujimori gather outside the prison where he is being held in the outskirts of Lima, a day after Peru's Constitutional Court ordered his release. Fujimori, 85, has been serving a 25-year sentence in connection with the death squad slayings of 25 Peruvians in the 1990s. IMAGES
Supporters of former Peru president Alberto Fujimori gather outside the prison where he is detained in Lima after the Constitutional Court ordered his release. Fujimori, 85, has been serving a 25-year prison sentence for crimes against humanity committed on his watch. IMAGES