Overview

• The Supreme Court’s Sala de Apelación dismissed appeals by ex-minister José Luis Ábalos and former adviser Koldo García, affirming Judge Puente’s authority to probe public-works contracts highlighted by businessman Víctor de Aldama.
• Judge Puente warned ex-secretary Santos Cerdán against using baseless theories to delay proceedings and ordered his provisional detention over allegations of managing a commission quota system.
• A digital forensic examination of over ten terabytes of seized audio recordings has been commissioned to confirm authenticity, while full access to the complete dataset remains restricted.
• The Congreso de los Diputados has submitted ten years of salary records for José Luis Ábalos after the Guardia Civil flagged inconsistencies totaling more than €750,000 compared with his tax filings.
• Former Tragsatec official Virginia Barbancho testified that ADIF management instructed her to leave Jéssica Rodríguez—reputedly Ábalos’s niece—unmonitored despite her failure to submit any work reports.