Specialists in Criminal Law in Marbella

We represent our clients in proceedings before the Audiencia Nacional (Spain's National Court, with jurisdiction over serious cross-border and organised crime), the court with jurisdiction over the most complex and significant criminal matters.

We have obtained a ruling in which Spain opposed an extradition request by applying the principle of reciprocity, in a hearing held before this court.

We act in proceedings involving technology-related offences and the theft of crypto-assets, coordinating digital evidence, intelligence reports and international judicial cooperation.

We have handled a case involving the theft of nearly 40 BTC from a company, with an intelligence report from Europol (EC3), data cross-checking with Greece and Switzerland, requests to Binance, a European arrest warrant and international judicial assistance with Morocco.

Technical and strategic defense against the offence of money laundering (arts. 301 to 304 of the Criminal Code), in its intentional, negligent and self-laundering forms, including the criminal liability of the legal entity and compliance as a defense.

We apply Supreme Court case law on the specific intent requirement of reintegrating assets into the legal economic system, and we dismantle the prosecution's habitual indicia: unjustified increases in wealth, use of shell companies and the absence of a lawful explanation for the origin of the funds.

We advise and defend in criminal proceedings with an international dimension, coordinating actions across different jurisdictions whenever the case requires it.

We defend people wanted by other countries, analyzing the merits of the extradition and the safeguards of the procedure in each case.

We have achieved a ruling in which Spain opposed an extradition by applying the principle of reciprocity, at a hearing before the Audiencia Nacional (Spain's National Court, with jurisdiction over serious cross-border and organised crime).

We prepare and file applications before the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) in Strasbourg once domestic judicial remedies have been exhausted, whenever there has been a violation of rights recognized under the European Convention on Human Rights, such as the right to a fair trial, the presumption of innocence or the safeguards against deprivation of liberty.

We defend and prosecute in proceedings for misappropriation (art. 253 of the Criminal Code), where a person who has received money, valuables or goods on deposit, commission or under an administration arrangement appropriates them or denies having received them. Unlike fraud, here the offence originates in the abuse of a prior, lawful relationship of trust, which requires a meticulous analysis of the title under which the assets were handed over.

We act in proceedings for offences committed by civil servants and authorities in the exercise of their office, such as bribery, abuse of power in office, misappropriation of public funds, trading in influence or prohibited negotiations, both in defense of the person under investigation and in representing the injured party.

We defend individuals and companies in proceedings for offences against the Public Treasury, analyzing regularization and defense options from the very first moment.

We advise and defend in proceedings involving economic and corporate crime, acting both for the prosecution and for the defense.

We have filed criminal complaints for unfair administration, false accounting, favouring of creditors and punishable insolvency, and have conducted the defense in proceedings with prosecution requests of up to 360,000 euros.

We conduct the defense in drug trafficking proceedings, from the investigation stage through to trial, including cases involving organized crime and large quantities of drugs.

We have handled a case involving 1,290 kg of cocaine with the involvement of Europol and the Audiencia Nacional (Spain's National Court, with jurisdiction over serious cross-border and organised crime), as well as cases involving 100 kg and 50 kg of hashish and an active drug-dealing point in Marbella.

We conduct both defense and prosecution in offences against life — homicide, murder and negligent homicide — the most serious offences under criminal law, which require a rigorous analysis of the expert evidence (forensic, ballistic, crime-scene) and of the circumstances that may affect the legal characterization of the offence and the sentence.

We take on defense and prosecution in the broad range of everyday offences: assault, theft, robbery, threats, coercion, criminal damage, offences against road safety and other frequent criminal infractions, applying the same technical rigor that we bring to our most complex cases.

We defend companies, directors and individuals in offences against property and the socioeconomic order with a business impact: fraud, punishable insolvency, corruption between private parties and other conduct that affects commercial dealings, combining criminal analysis with the corporate and accounting perspective of the case.

We prepare and file the cassation appeal before the Supreme Court against judgments handed down on appeal by the Provincial Courts or the Audiencia Nacional (Spain's National Court, with jurisdiction over serious cross-border and organised crime), an extraordinary remedy limited to specific statutory grounds of infringement of law or procedural defect, which requires a drafting technique specific to and distinct from that of an ordinary appeal.