The victims of the dictatorship have repeatedly, and unsuccessfully, sought justice in Spain. Sant Julià de Ramis attempted to address the issue of the plunder in 2019. The Gironès town council claimed 9,786 Republican pesetas from that era, equivalent to €136,123.26. After the Council of Ministers rejected the request, Sant Julià de Ramis filed an appeal with the Supreme Court, also unsuccessful. With the Democratic Memory Law, passed in 2022, the Caldes de Montbui Town Council hopes to succeed with a new claim. It will not be easy, because while the Spanish government committed to documenting the plunder, the legislation does not specify how the victims can be compensated.

He Pazo de Meirás, in Galicia, It is a property highly representative of the plundering carried out by the Franco regime, and in particular by Franco himself. The castle, which had been owned by the writer Emilia Pardo Bazán, was gifted to Franco during the war after a supposed collection that was actually a widespread extortion in all the local towns. Franco then filled it with works of art and relics obtained illegally. The property was not recovered by the State until 2020., but the dispute over the relics has dragged on for several more years. In the chapel where two of the dictator's cleansed women were married were Abraham and Isaac, two 12th-century sculptures attributed to Master Mateo. Originally, they were part of the sculptural grouping on the exterior portico of Santiago de Compostela Cathedral. For years, there had been an ongoing dispute between the council and Franco's heirs, who refused to return them. They will finally have to do so following a Supreme Court ruling that invalidated the previous one, according to which the assets had not been properly identified.