Overview

• On July 31 David Sánchez filed a statement confirming he remains officially resident in Elvas, Portugal.
• He informed the court he has no plans to move to Japan where his wife and daughter reside in Wakayama.
• Judge Beatriz Biedma had given him two days to notify any change of residence before setting the oral trial date.
• The court refused to withdraw his passport or impose a €70,000 bond after private prosecutors argued he posed a flight risk.
• Sánchez faces charges of influence-peddling and administrative prevarication over a 2017 Diputación de Badajoz job appointment.