Overview
- The Penal Chamber opened separate pecuniary‑responsibility files to monitor the guarantees and warned that nonpayment could lead to asset seizure.
- Both defendants remain in preventive custody at Soto del Real as the Appeals Chamber schedules a Thursday hearing to review their imprisonment.
- Anti‑Corruption prosecutors seek long prison terms—24 years for Ábalos and 19 years and six months for García—and fines of about €3.9 million each.
- Ábalos has appointed penal attorney Marino Turiel after the resignation of his previous lawyer, while García is represented by Leticia de la Hoz.
- The court’s demand follows prison notifications delivered on December 12, which both men signed acknowledging they would consult their lawyers.