Oct 21, 2025
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Judge Pedraz wrote the oral process in front of the Spanish language that was revealed by El Pais newspaper
Prosecutors seek 13-year prison sentence for former Spanish soldier who spied on Assange for CIA
Judge Pedraz issues oral order for trial in treason case revealed by EL PAÍS
The Prosecutor's Office is asking for 13.5 years in prison for David Morales, the Spanish ex-military who spied on Julian Assange during his stay at the Ecuadorian embassy in London.The prosecutor accuses him of uncovering and revealing secrets, bribery and illegal possession of weapons.The prosecutor's request is similar to the one presented by his lawyers.Assange, in addition to the crime of forgery, which in the case of the founder of Wikileaks raises the request to 20 and a half years in prison.
The preliminaries judge, Judge Santiago Pedraz, ordered the security company UC Global S.L. The order opened the oral hearing on Monday against Marin, the director and owner of the Jerez de la Frontera-based company.The company was appointed by the Ecuadorian government to look after the security of its embassy in the British capital between 2015 and 2018.
The judicial case began in 2019, after an investigation by El Pais against UC Global Sl.Australian Courter has released audio and video recordings made by workers during the years he was held at the embassy.Weeks after those revelations, Morales was arrested and has since been released on parole.
From the letter of the prosecutor Pedro Martínez Torrijos, to which EL PAÍS had access, it appears that the embassy had video surveillance with cameras without sound, the sole purpose of which was to monitor possible illegal access to the property.However, Morales assembled a small group of workers between June and July 2017 that he appointed with the task of gathering information and monitoring the cameras by others with the ability to record audio.They also installed audio filters to bypass the white noise machine Assange activated to prevent his conversations with his lawyers from being recorded.
Stregto's stopthing that, regardless of distance, two microphones are placed, one of which is Ekurach in his honor and respect.Morales organized staff to activate the streaming system on the new cameras to monitor what happens inside the embassy in real time.Create the establishment of the system that has two channels, "one official for Ecuador, and another person for unknown people who gather friends."The staff confiscated the visitors' phones, took their pictures and copied the IMEI numbers
A lengthy judicial investigation has sought to determine whether Morales provided all the information to the CIA.Two protected witnesses, former employees of UC Global S.L., have stated in the case that the American client was the US intelligence agency. The US justice system has not responded to any rogatory commission sent by the courts, and a New York judge took advantage of the National Security Law to not respond to a lawsuit filed by US lawyers who were spied on when they visited Assange.The judge filed the complaint saying that failure to do so “could endanger the security of the United States.”
The prosecution emphasizes that the team created by Jerez de la Frontera went to London to collect records and that it collected and kept confidential information about Assault during his meetings with doctors, publicity.Employees and individuals such as Rafael Corra, the former president of Equinor, Concul Furm Maniz and Stele Marms of Wikileaks and today's wife, among others.
UC Global S.Cl.It called for a three-and-a-half-year prison sentence for Michel Gaston Wallemacq, chief of operations.In addition, the company asked for a 10-year ban on workplace protection in security or public buildings.
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