
The lawyer, accused in the case of the PSOE sewers, communicates her resignation to the National Court
Lawyer Leticia de la Hoz renounces defending Koldo García, sentenced to 19 and a half years for the masks case, citing professional reasons protected by professional secrecy and her own accusation in the National Court for the PSOE sewers.
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Koldo García was sentenced to 19 and a half years in prison for the masks case. Leticia de la Hoz defended herself in the Supreme Court and in cases of the National Court. De la Hoz is accused in the PSOE sewer case for trying to bribe Carmen Pano.
Lawyer Leticia de la Hoz has informed the National Court that she is resigning from defending Ábalos' former advisor, Koldo García, sentenced to 19 and a half years in prison for the 'masks case' for various corruption crimes.
In a letter sent to the court, to which EL MUNDO has had access, De la Hoz argues that "for professional reasons, the content of which is protected by professional secrecy, I renounce continuing to defend Koldo García Izaguirre in this case."
The lawyer is also currently accused in the National Court, in the case of the PSOE sewers, for having tried to bribe the businesswoman Carmen Pano, who confessed in court to having taken bags of cash to the Ferraz headquarters.
De la Hoz's decision to leave the defense of Ábalos' former advisor comes after different media outlets reported the existence of audio recordings of Koldo García in which he denounced that the PP had supposedly asked him to sing against Pedro Sánchez and members of the Government in exchange for giving him one million euros.
Sources close to the lawyer explain that she adopted this decision to focus on her own defense regardless of the noise generated by Koldo García's audios.
In the document, in which he renounces his defense, De la Hoz indicates that "in order not to cause defenselessness to the investigated, and in response to the right to defense and legal assistance recognized by article 24.2 of the Constitution and article 118 of the Criminal Procedure Law, it is of interest that he be personally required to appoint a new lawyer of his free choice."
The lawyer has defended García both in the trial held in the Supreme Court for the masks case and in the case opened in the National Court for the rigging of public works and in the case of the alleged irregular financing of the Socialist Party.
AI outlook — possibilities, not facts
Koldo García will appoint a new lawyer of his free choice after being personally requested by the National Court.
Very likely · Within days
Leticia de la Hoz will continue her own defense in the cause of the PSOE sewers.
Very likely · Within weeks
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