Overview

• The Audiencia Nacional ordered a court forensic doctor to assess Rafael Redondo after a recent heart operation and paused the proceedings pending the report.
• Anticorrupción charges Villarejo with passive bribery and discovery and revelation of secrets, seeking nine years in prison, with 4 years and 9 months for Redondo and ex-officer Antonio Bonilla, and eight years for ex–chief inspector Constancio Riaño.
• The case centers on a 2015 commission from Marzena Katarzina to investigate businessman Felipe Gómez Zotano, with prosecutors alleging illicit access to a police fingerprint file and the central notarial registry for a dossier later filed in court.
• Villarejo’s defense asks to call former CNI director Félix Sanz Roldán and ex–Anticorrupción chief Manuel Moix as witnesses and contests access to seized material and the chain of custody, claiming the probe began with an anonymous CNI complaint.
• The trial opens days after an appeals chamber cut Villarejo’s earlier aggregate sentence from 19 to 13 years, and former commissioner Enrique García Castaño is not being tried in this piece due to incapacity following a 2022 stroke.