Overview

• The ruling turns down fresh requests to question UCO chief Antonio Balas, to probe the 10 terabytes seized from Koldo García, and to notify Congress about potential inquiries involving protected officials without a suplicatorio.
• Puente criticizes the filing as a venting exercise and labels parts of the defense’s reasoning as “puerile and perhaps frivolous,” rejecting comparisons to “summary trials of the dictatorship.”
• The decision reiterates the judge’s September 15 stance and keeps the pretrial instruction on its existing track.
• The order stresses that a recurso de reforma is non‑devolutive and is not the venue to assess UCO members’ expertise or to contest the prosecutor’s views.
• The court notes the defense bypassed an appeal and instead resubmitted arguments already raised in an earlier motion.