Overview
- Cerdán must appear in court every two weeks, surrender his passport, and is barred from leaving Spain.
- The ruling cites a now "seriously mitigated" risk that evidence could be hidden, altered, or destroyed after investigators obtained information that might otherwise have been inaccessible.
- The judge notes that pretrial detention requires concrete risks such as flight, tampering, or reoffending, which can now be managed through less restrictive measures.
- He finds no clear risk of reoffending or absconding because Cerdán currently holds no public office and no leadership role in his former party.
- The investigation remains active with strengthened indications and new lines of inquiry; the release also removes what the defense termed a comparative grievance as other defendants are already free, and the judge had earlier signaled any incarceration would not exceed six months.