Spain's National Audience Magistrate, Baltasar Garzón, has been charged and barred for 11 years from the legal profession for allegedly illegally ordering the placement of wiretaps in jailhouses to record conversations between inmates and their lawyers in the Gürtel case. This was a case about the embezzlement of public funds which ended with two dozen members of the Popular Party (right-wing party currently heading the government) dismissed.
Le han echado una condena de inhabilitación de 11 años al Magistrado de la Audiencia Nacional, Baltasar Garzón, por haber ordenado intervenir conversaciones mantenidas en prisión por acusados y abogados de la trama Gürtel, que trata sobre el saqueo de fondos públicos que sacó de la política a dos decenas de dirigentes del Partido Popular (partido de derecha y actual partido en gobierno en España).