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In a written ministerial statement, Phillipson said she became aware last year of "credible concerns about the recruitment and attendance of students" at the college and commissioned an investigation by the Government Internal Audit Agency.

In 2018, Spain's interior ministry didn't give a green light to an Eticas proposal to conduct a confidential, pro-bono, internal audit.

This was passed to internal audit, which reviewed the allegations and concluded that they were substantiated and there appeared to be evidence of wrongdoing by Reeves and her two colleagues, according to a senior source with direct knowledge of the investigation.

The bank's internal audit department carried out the initial investigation and found there was evidence expenses rules appeared to have been broken, a senior source said.

The report was passed to the bank's risk department and, at their request, was taken on by the Internal Audit department.