Overview

• The government has insisted on moving forward with its justice reform bill unchanged, requesting the CGPJ to dock pay from judges and prosecutors who join strikes planned for early July.
• The UCO executed searches in Madrid homes connected to the ‘case Koldo’ and has been appointed as judicial police in a separate inquiry into alleged €500,000 bribes involving Alberto González Amador, partner of Isabel Díaz Ayuso.
• A Supreme Court judge denied a bid to publicly stream Santos Cerdán’s questioning, affirming secrecy requirements during the pretrial phase.
• The Tribunal Superior de Justicia de Asturias ruled that Susana Sierra’s homicide will remain classified as an ordinary murder and not be transferred to a gender-violence court, even as A Coruña prepares to open its own specialized tribunal.
• Allegations of manipulated police exams in Oviedo have intensified as judges probe the composition of promotion tribunals and the fairness of recent mobility contests.