Luis Navajas
| The Most Excellent Attorney General Luis Navajas | |
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| Attorney General of Spain Acting | |
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In office 18 November 2017 – 11 December 2017 | |
| Preceded by | José Manuel Maza |
| Succeeded by | Julián Sánchez Melgar[1] |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
17 December 1948 Granada, Spain |
Luis Manuel Navajas Ramos (born 17 December 1948) is a Spanish prosecutor. He has been the Lieutenant Attorney of the Supreme Court since 2014 and acting Attorney General of the State following the sudden death of José Manuel Maza in November 2017[2].He is the second prosecutor who holds this position in office, when Eduardo Torres-Dulce resigned from the post on 19 December 2014 and until Consuelo Madrigal did not take possession on 13 January 2015[3].
Career
He graduated in Law, became professor between 1987 and 2003 of Crime Law at Basque Institute of Criminology and entered the judicial career in 1976. He was prosecutor of the Audiencia de Province of Guipúzcoa between 1987 and 2003[4] He became famous for his report that bears his name and that investigated some corrupt plots in the Intxarrurrondo barracks of the Guardia Civil and in which General Enrique Rodríguez was involved. Galindo The cause was shelved and received many criticisms of the environment of the fight against ETA[5]
In 2003 he was appointed prosecutor of the Criminal Chamber of the Supreme Court and was appointed lieutenant prosecutor of the same court on 31 October, 2014. As a lieutenant prosecutor of the Supreme Court, he requested the dismissal of the case against Judge Baltasar Garzón for having declared competent to investigate the crimes of the Francisco Franco regime.
See also
References
- ↑ Vázquez, Ángeles; Santos, Pilar (24 November 2017). "El Gobierno elige a Julián Sánchez Melgar como nuevo fiscal general del Estado" (in Spanish). El Periódico.
- ↑ Luis Navajas, un fiscal general en funciones que se ha curtido en el País Vasco (in Spanish)
- ↑ Escalafón de la carrera fiscal (2008) (in Spanish)
- ↑ Luis Manuel Navajas Ramos (in Spanish)
- ↑ Luis Navajas, teniente fiscal del Supremo, releva a Maza hasta que el Gobierno designe un sucesor (in Spanish)