Overview

• S Supreme Court judge Leopoldo Puente rejected Santos Cerdán’s latest bid for new diligences, chastising the filing as a venting exercise and calling parts of the reasoning “puerile and perhaps frivolous.”
• Anticorruption chief prosecutor Alejandro Luzón opposed the defense motions, accusing Cerdán of seeking “hiding places and tortuosities” to delay a straightforward investigation and citing a substantial body of indications.
• The defense had asked to question UCO lieutenant colonel Antonio Balas and to notify Congress about alleged inquiries into privileged officeholders without a formal request, which the judge deemed improper at this stage.
• A SECRIM digital forensics report validated eight key audio files as authentic, and prosecutors dismissed the defense’s alternative theories as speculative and unsupported by the expert analysis.
• Prosecutors noted a court‑ordered review of messages involving Ángel Víctor Torres is pending, stressing that no parliamentary privilege was violated and that proceedings in the Audiencia Nacional remain separate.