Overview
- The Supreme Court, which ruled Thursday, cut Francisco Nicolás Gómez Iglesias’s term to two years, one month and 15 days after deeming the 13-year case delay a very serious mitigating factor.
- Judges upheld that he induced the crime of revealing secrets and committed active bribery in a 2014 plan to obtain vehicle-owner data from Madrid police in exchange for rewards.
- The two municipal officers who supplied the data also saw their penalties reduced to the same length, and a Guardia Civil assigned to the Royal Household was acquitted.
- The court also dropped a separate official-secrets count against Gómez Iglesias after acquitting the former municipal security coordinator tied to that charge.
- Because no single revised term exceeds two years, the Madrid court will decide whether he must enter prison, and his lawyer plans to seek a suspension of the sentence.