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Baltasar Garzón (64) was able to reorient his career when in 2012 the Supreme Court sentenced him to eleven years of disqualification for illegal listening in the Gürtel case . Far from becoming a crashed judge, he recomposed his image and is now a star lawyer specializing in Human Rights and one with an important international agenda. In addition, voter electoral decisions only improve their conditions.
Baltasar Garzón used his friends and family to rebuild his image. Thus, in December 2011, when the disqualification was almost a fact, I believe the Baltasar Garzón International Foundation . It is a "Human Rights and universal jurisdiction" entity based in Spain, Mexico, Argentina and Colombia. In April 2012 he joined the Bar Association of Seville and in June he opened his own office under the company Ilocad SL and two years later he established Iodic Inversiones, both based in front of the El Retiro park.
Garzón has had in his family the main support for his professional reinvention. Married since 1980 with María Rosario Molina , they have three children. Maria is the most public, since she wrote a book after her father's disqualification in which she confessed how badly the family had had in those years. Patron of the foundation of his father, he is a publicist and last year he made the leap to politics with Actúa. Baltasar , the medium, works with his father and Aurora , the little girl, develops her professional work as a psychologist in a private clinic in Madrid. Although for years there has been talk of the friendships that Garzón maintains with powerful women, they are a united family and enjoy traveling together in summer , to which the grandchildren who already have the marriage are added.
If Garzón knew how to remake himself after the disqualification, recent political events have also favored him. Expert in improving his image , little has been affected by being part of the list of people recorded by former commissioner Villarejo. Garzón has denied that he acted in favor of the shipping company Ángel Pérez-Maura at the request of the former policeman, as he said in some recordings despite the fact that the case is still under investigation.
POWERFUL FRIENDS
In the last year, he has seen the fate of his side. The election of Dolores Delgado as Minister of Justice in Spain was a good thing for him since they share a close personal relationship for years. She drinks from her cup. After the separation of the minister last year, many speculated on a possible relationship between the former magistrate and the prosecutor, however, Garzón remains married and ignoring the gossip , since it is not uncommon to find the minister and the lawyer Sharing table and tablecloth in various restaurants in Madrid.
Not only this friendship is advantageous for Garzón. The international situation cannot be better. On October 27, Alberto Fernández, seconded by Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, won the presidential elections in Argentina. The return to power of Kirchnerismo is an opportunity for Baltasar Garzón to get a salary again in the country of the Andes. Cristina K was the first to offer her a job after her disqualification. He signed him at the Secretariat of Human Rights of Argentina with a salary of more than 6,000 euros per month. Garzón, who spent four years living between Spain and Buenos Aires, left that international advice when Macri came to power in 2016 before the Pro leader asked him to resign.
Despite the favorable international outlook, Garzón does not seem to need much more work to live. A few weeks ago, the Generalitat Valenciana announced its signing as a member of the Agency for Prevention and Fight against fraud and Corruption. His salary is not public, but in the last two years he has earned 3.3 million euros in salary for his work at Ilocad, his law firm.
Garzón's healthy accounts have not led him to change his daily life. The former judge lives with his wife in the same house they bought in 1989. It is a 315 square meter apartment in Pozuelo de Alarcón, on a farm with four neighbors and common areas. They also have another property in the Sevillian town of Sanlúcar la Mayor. Catholic and very fond of hunting, he entered the seminary of Jaén with the idea of ordering. There he played football in the position of goalkeeper and with the shirt of Barcelona, a team that remains a fan.
Garzón has stated that he wants to be a star judge again. In 2023, his disqualification period ends , by then he will be 68 years old and aspires to relocate to the first free place there is. Going back to the National Court would reduce your income by around 2,400 euros per month according to the law regulating the remuneration regime for the career. Of course, he always has the recourse to write some kind missive: Dear Emilios.
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