Former Spanish Minister and Attorney General Convicted by High Court

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ER Editor: Sanchez and the Spanish royals have been replaced, judging by image searches, and govt. ministers are falling under corruption scandals. Here are two reports from this week. We wonder if the Spanish are seeing the fall from grace of their ‘elites’, such as the Sanchez family, when in fact they already went down some time ago, perhaps for other far more serious crimes.

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Judge jails former Spanish minister ahead of trial, deepening deadlock in parliament

The imprisonment of José Luis Ábalos makes it virtually impossible for Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez to pass legislation.

AITOR HERNANDEZ-MORALES for Politico

Spain’s Supreme Court ordered lawmaker and former Public Works and Transport Minister José Luis Ábalos to be jailed without bond on Thursday after deeming him a flight risk ahead of his corruption trial.

Prosecutors are seeking a 24-year prison sentence for Ábalos, who was a top figure in the country’s ruling Socialist Party between 2017 and 2021. The politician is being investigated for alleged bribery, influence-peddling and embezzlement in connection with public contracts during the Covid pandemic.

The former minister is the first sitting member of the Spanish parliament to be imprisoned in the country’s modern democratic history. Although elected as a member of the Socialist Party, he was suspended from the parliamentary group in 2024, shortly after anti-corruption investigators detained his former adviser, Koldo García, for allegedly profiting from the sale of face masks during the pandemic. In a separate hearing, the court on Thursday also ordered García to be detained without bail ahead of his trial.

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Spain’s attorney general resigns following Supreme Court conviction

AITOR HERNANDEZ-MORALES

Spanish Attorney General Álvaro García Ortiz resigned Monday, stepping down before a judicial ruling banning him from holding public office for two years went into effect.

Spain’s Supreme Court last week convicted García Ortiz of leaking details of a tax probe involving the partner of Madrid’s regional leader Isabel Díaz Ayuso, a rising star among the country’s conservative voters.

The outgoing attorney general denies leaking the information, and several journalists who published articles about the probe testified he was not their source. Although the court announced García Ortiz’s guilty verdict within days of his trial’s conclusion, the panel of judges who tried him has yet to publish the legal reasoning behind the ruling.

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Featured images source: from both Politico articles linked to above

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