The Anti-Corruption Prosecutor's Office has requested the Supreme Court not to heed the requests made by former minister José Luis Ábalos and his former advisor Koldo García to annul the sentence of the 'mask case', in which they were sentenced to 24 and 19 years in prison, respectively.
In a document accessed by Europa Press, the chief prosecutor of Anti-Corruption, Alejandro Luzón, argues that the nullity incidents promoted by the defenses of Ábalos and Koldo "are necessarily doomed to failure and must be dismissed, as they clearly exceed the scope of this remedy."
The representative of the Public Ministry rejects the claim that "the court rectify the criterion expressed in its resolution on the proposed issues, basing itself on arguments coinciding with those that have already been duly dismissed by the Chamber in its ruling."
"Consequently, lacking their own object, the incidents raised, by merely reproducing claims already examined and decided in the final ruling whose nullity is requested, it is appropriate to dismiss the two incidents promoted," concludes Luzón in his report.
Ábalos requested the Supreme Court to declare the nullity of the sentence issued last June, to suspend the execution of the sentence, and to agree to his release — he has been in provisional prison along with Koldo since November 2025 — considering that the judges of the High Court who sentenced him relied on "non-existent corroborations."