Calama gave the state property office two days to send the acceptance record for institutional gifts to the Presidency of the Government covering 2004 to 2011.
Jewels seized from Zapatero's office in May are provisionally valued at 1.3 million euros, according to the reports on the order.
Zapatero's defence wants a letter rogatory to Saudi Arabia to verify that the jewels were an official 2007 gift from the Saudi monarch. The judge will decide after the records arrive.
Judge José Luis Calama, who leads the Plus Ultra case at Spain's Audiencia Nacional, has asked the state property office (Subdirección General de Patrimonio del Estado) for a copy of the acceptance record for institutional gifts made to the Presidency of the Government during the 2004-2008 and 2008-2011 legislatures. Those years match the terms of José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero as prime minister. The judge wants the document sent as soon as possible and in any case within two days. La Razón reports that the record is dated 1 March 2012.
The request is tied to jewels seized during a search of the former prime minister's professional office in May, which La Razón dates to 19 May. Their market value has been provisionally set at 1.3 million euros. Zapatero's defence has asked the court to send a letter rogatory to Saudi Arabia to confirm that the pieces were an official gift from the Saudi monarch during his 2007 official visit to Spain. Zapatero maintains that the jewels were given to him in 2007 by the Saudi monarchy.
The order followed input from the Anticorruption Prosecutor's Office, which is still examining both the origin of the seized items and their market value. Calama will not decide on the Saudi request until he has the gift records in hand. The two-day deadline therefore shapes the timing of his next step, which is whether to ask Saudi Arabia for information.
The sequence runs from the 2007 visit that Zapatero cites, through the May search, to the judge's order of 23 October 2026.
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Judge José Luis Calama gave Spain's state property office two days to produce the acceptance record of gifts to the Presidency of the Government from 2004 to 2011. The order matters because it comes before he decides whether to seek information from Saudi Arabia about jewels seized from Zapatero's office.
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