Overview
- - The State Attorney filed a 45-page incidente de nulidad asking the Supreme Court to annul and suspend execution of Álvaro García Ortiz’s sentence, preserving the route to a Constitutional Court appeal.
- - The challenge argues the ruling “secures and silences” the Fiscalía’s ability to issue institutional statements when it is publicly attacked, in a case that led to a two-year disqualification, a €7,200 fine, and €10,000 in damages to Alberto González Amador.
- - The conviction for revelation of secrets was adopted by a 5–2 majority, and a separate nullity bid by the deputy prosecutor general earlier alleged violations of presumption of innocence and defense rights, citing a late shift that folded a press note into the offense.
- - In a separate decision, the Supreme Court’s Appeals Chamber rejected bids by former minister José Luis Ábalos and his ex‑aide Koldo García to leave jail, citing a growing body of indicia, the imminence of oral trial, and elevated potential sentences.
- - Anti‑corruption prosecutors seek 24 years for Ábalos and 19.5 years for Koldo García, the popular prosecution asks for up to 30 years, and the court said Ábalos’s status as a sitting deputy does not bar preventive detention.