Zapatero once again challenges the jewelry store that will value his jewelry because "it is not impartial"

The former president of the Government José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero has filed an appeal before the Criminal Chamber of the National Court in which he once again requests the recusal of the Yanes jewelry store, alleging that it is not impartial.

The former socialist leader, investigated in the so-called Plus Ultra case, reiterates that the general director of this firm already stated in an interview in La Sexta that the jewelry that was seized by the Judicial Police in his office has a value of two million, a figure notably higher than that established by the first judicial appraisal, carried out by Ansorena, and which set its "replacement value" at 1.3 million. These manifestations "decrease the reliability of the results," he points out.

Zapatero's lawyer, Víctor Moreno Catena, argues that the assessment that Yanes is going to make will incur a "vice of objective partiality of the judicial expert." At the same time, he highlights that his choice does not come "from the list of judicial experts of the Community of Madrid." "We do not know the reasons that led the instructor to designate her as an expert," the appeal emphasizes.

For this reason, Moreno Catena considers that Yanes "does not have official personnel whose statutory obligations include those of ensuring the general interest" and adds that "the impartiality of the expert is a relevant value that must be preserved and his objectivity is decisive."