The judge rejects Zapatero's request to ask Saudi Arabia about the seized jewelry

Instructor José Luis Calama takes this step after the defense presented a brief last September.

The judge of the National Court in charge of the Plus Ultra case has rejected the request of former President of the Government José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero to send a rogatory commission to Saudi Arabia to prove the origin of the jewelry that was seized in the search of his office on May 19. The instructor José Luis Calama has taken this step after last September Zapatero's defense clarified the origin of the jewelry that the Police seized from him. The former socialist president assured that the pieces were a personal “gift” that Saudi Arabia gave him in 2007 when he was in La Moncloa. And he asked the judge to request the country's cooperation to prove his story.