Overview

• The Audiencia Nacional has scheduled the long-delayed trial of Jordi Pujol and his seven children for November, with more than 250 witnesses and hearings expected to run into 2026.
• The court also plans to hold the final Gürtel trial in November, focused on the network’s laundering and tax-evasion structure with 26 defendants including Francisco Correa.
• The Kitchen case on the alleged illegal spying of Luis Bárcenas with reserved funds is slated to start at the Audiencia Nacional in April 2026.
• The ‘Koldo’ investigation has escalated to alleged public-works kickbacks, drawing in former PSOE leaders José Luis Ábalos and Santos Cerdán, whom the Supreme Court has indicted and kept in pretrial detention after a UCO report.
• Proceedings are tightening around top figures as Attorney General Álvaro García Ortiz remains processed with a trial expected this year, a judge has added malversation to the case against Begoña Gómez with September questioning set, and David Sánchez has been sent to trial pending appeals.