Corruption in Navarre

The history of the contemporary corruption in the Spanish region of Navarre dates back last 1970s when the first Navarrese executive cabinet after the establishment of Navarre's Chartered Autonomous regime in 1982, was shocked by the FASA affair. However with the sole exception of the scandals that took place in the tenure of the socialist president of Navarre Gabriel Urralburu, no high rank officers of the Navarrese government have been found guilty by the courts of justice.

• Lourdes Goicoechea case (2014): There was a political scandal erupting in Yolanda Barcina's cabinet involving alleged embezzlement and preferential treatment to several high taxpayers and institutions like the University of Navarre. The Parliament of Navarre launched a parliamentary probe, concluding that the president of Navarre did not explain irregularities or account for obscure practices, for which a majority resolution censured UPN's Barcina. Trying to make political inroads of the scandal, Spanish Socialists in Navarre initially sided with Basque nationalist parties in order to impeach the president of Navarre, but in the end the national executive body of the Socialist Party considered refuse to side with political coalition Bildu due to their ultranationalist positions and ultimately the impeachment was aborted^[1] Weeks after the close of the political scandal, the Spanish Supreme Court of Justice stated that no evidence of corruption or mismanagement had been found in the Goicoechea affair and closed the file.^[2]