The judge asks to investigate who is the author of the mark with a 'T' engraved on Zapatero's jewelry

The judge of the National Court in charge of the Plus Ultra case, José Luis Calama, has asked the Economic and Fiscal Crime Unit (Udef) of the National Police to investigate who is the author of the punch that appears in the most valuable jewelry seized from the former president of the Government José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero during the search of his office on May 19.

In an order, issued this Tuesday, the magistrate urges Udef to, if it considers it necessary, request the collaboration of Interpol and Europol.

In a report delivered to Calama, the two Yanes experts provided a thread to pull in order to reach the true origin of the jewels. It is about the existence of "a very specific punching present in all the pieces." In addition to including 18K - an indication of the grade of the metal -, "it provides a letter T (of special design)", which appears within "a rectangle with rounded ends". According to this prestigious firm, it is an "image that, with exhaustive research at an international level, could lead to the original manufacturer."

This characteristic also allows us to affirm that the most valuable jewelry - three sets of sapphires, brilliants and emeralds - were manufactured "simultaneously" and that the set did not come "from a high jewelry brand of recognized prestige."

According to the version given by the former general secretary of the PSOE that the jewels are a gift that was given to him at the La Moncloa Palace by the Saudi king Abdullah Bin Abdulaziz in 2007.

The expert report cooled the possibility that the origin of the jewelry resided in Middle Eastern countries and was more inclined towards Asian ones. "These characteristics lead us to rule out certain countries that are quite demanding with the regulations for identifying fine jewelry with its hallmarks, hallmarks and marks, such as the European Economic Community, the United States and the Arab countries," the expert highlighted.

The jewels that Zapatero had hidden in a safe in his official office have been valued by two fine jewelery firms at more than one million euros; in the case of the Yanes firm at 1,023 million while Ansorena rates at 1.3 million.