For the second day in a row, the Supreme Court followed a virtually identical script. After José Luis Ábalos appeared yesterday, this Thursday it was Koldo García's turn. Just as the former Minister of Transport did, his former advisor refused to testify, criticizing Leopoldo Puente, the judge in charge of the alleged corruption case at the high court, who opted to release him. The Anti-Corruption Prosecutor's Office, as was the case with Ábalos, has not requested his imprisonment, even though it sees a certain risk of flight, and the Popular Party (PP) prosecutors, led by the People's Party (PP), have again unsuccessfully requested provisional detention without bail. Thus, Koldo has also avoided prison and is leaving the Supreme Court with the same precautionary measures that were being applied to him: revocation of his passport and biweekly appearances in court. Thus, the former number three of the PSOE (Spanish Socialist Workers' Party), Santos Cerdán, is the only suspect in the case who is incarcerated.

The PP already has the Cerdán case. Certainly, there was a case. But what it wants is the Sánchez case: big game. The noose around the Spanish president continues to tighten. The PP has temporarily put aside internal differences, Ayuso has taken a break from her barely buried fight with Feijóo, and now they are trying to squeeze the most out of the fall into the depths of corruption of the man who until four days ago was the PSOE's organizational secretary. This Monday, the investigating judge of the Supreme Court, Leopoldo Puente, urged by the Anti-Corruption Prosecutor Alejandro Luzón—reserved and independent, with a solid professional career—ordered imprisonment without bail for Santos Cerdán, an extreme that had not been reached with the other two members of the allegedly snatched trio, former minister José Luis Ábalos and Koldo García, for whom only Precautionary measures have been issued, such as the revocation of his passport and the obligation to appear in court every two weeks.

Supreme Court Judge Leopoldo Puente has sent to The current number three of the PSOE has been placed in provisional detention without bail. and right-hand man of Spanish President Pedro Sánchez, Santos Cerdán. The Socialist leader, who resigned from all his positions following the Civil Guard report targeting him, defended himself by asserting that it is a case of "political persecution" due to the role he played in bridging the gap between the PNV and EH Bildu, and also with former President Carles Puigdemont. He even predicted that the next to fall would be Minister Félix Bolaños, an interlocutor with ERC. However, the truth is that he has not convinced the judge in any way, and the order ordering his imprisonment is devastating: it places him as the head of the alleged corruption plot and suggests that there may have been more money defrauded and more people involved. Below are the main arguments ofJudge Leopoldo Puente:

This week's political earthquake in Ferraz stems from a police report from the UCO (Central Court of Justice) that was under seal and was part of a separate part of the Ábalos case in the Supreme Court (SC). From the courts, the person handling that case is Judge Leopoldo Puente. This is also what he offered Santos Cerdán on Thursday to voluntarily testify before the SC on June 25th due to the "consistent evidence" pointing to him.