Luis Navajas

Luis Manuel Navajas Ramos (born 17 December 1948) is a Spanish prosecutor. He has been the Lieutenant Attorney of the Supreme Court —second highest position within the Prosecution Ministry— since 2014 and acting Attorney General of the State in several occasions.

This article uses Spanish naming customs: the first or paternal family name is Navajas and the second or maternal family name is Ramos.

The Most Excellent Lieutenant Attorney Luis Navajas
Attorney General of Spain Acting
In office 15 January 2020 – 26 February 2020
Preceded by	María José Segarra
Succeeded by	Dolores Delgado
In office 22 June 2018 – 29 June 2018
Preceded by	Julián Sánchez Melgar
Succeeded by	María José Segarra
In office 18 November 2017 – 11 December 2017
Preceded by	José Manuel Maza
Succeeded by	Julián Sánchez Melgar[1]
In office 20 December 2014 – 10 January 2015
Preceded by	Eduardo Torres-Dulce
Succeeded by	Consuelo Madrigal
Lieutenant Attorney of the Supreme Court
Incumbent
Assumed office 1 November 2014
Preceded by	Antonio Narváez Rodríguez
Personal details
Born	(1948-12-17)17 December 1948 Granada, Spain

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 Provincial Court of Guipúzcoa between 1987 and 2003.[2] 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.[3]

Supreme Court Prosecutor

In 2003 he was appointed prosecutor of the Criminal Chamber of the Supreme Court and he was appointed Lieutenant Attorney of the same court on 31 October 2014. As a lieutenant attroney of the Supreme Court, he requested the dismissal of the case against Judge Baltasar Garzón for having declared competent to investigate Francoist Spain, in spite of the pact of forgetting.

Acting Attorney General

A month after being appointed Lieutenant Attorney, in December 2014, he assumed for the first time the position of Acting Attorney General of the State when Eduardo Torres-Dulce resigned from the post on 19 December 2014 and until Consuelo Madrigal did not take possession on 13 January 2015.[4]

The second and most known term as attorney general was following the sudden death of José Manuel Maza in November 2017.[5] It ceased in December, after the appointment of Julián Sánchez Melgar as attorney general. For a week, between June 22 and June 29, 2018, Navajas assumed the office until the definitive appointment of the prosecutor María José Segarra.[6]

He hold the office acting again in 15 January 2020 when María José Segarra was ceased and until the taking of possession of Dolores Delgado on 26 February 2020.[7]

See also

• Judiciary of Spain
• Spanish Attorney General
• 2017 Spanish constitutional crisis
• Operation Anubis

References

1. Vázquez, Ángeles; Santos, Pilar (24 November 2017). "El Gobierno elige a Julián Sánchez Melgar como nuevo fiscal general del Estado" (in Spanish). El Periódico.
2. Luis Manuel Navajas Ramos Archived 25 June 2018 at the Wayback Machine (in Spanish)
3. Luis Navajas, teniente fiscal del Supremo, releva a Maza hasta que el Gobierno designe un sucesor (in Spanish)
4. Escalafón de la carrera fiscal (2008) (in Spanish)
5. Luis Navajas, un fiscal general en funciones que se ha curtido en el País Vasco (in Spanish)
6. Press, Europa (27 June 2018). "El exfiscal general Sánchez Melgar dispone de 20 días para incorporarse a la Sala de lo Penal del Supremo". www.europapress.es. Retrieved 25 June 2020.
7. María José Segarra deja de ser oficialmente fiscal general del Estado (in Spanish)