Fernando Grande-Marlaska
- January 9, 2024
- Jurist
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Fernando Grande-Marlaska Biography
| Name | Fernando Grande-Marlaska |
| Birthday | Jul 26 |
| Birth Year | 1962 |
| Home Town | Bilbao |
| Birth Country | Spain |
| Birth Sign | Cancer |
| Parents | Avelino Grande |
| Spouse | Gorka Arotz |
Fernando Grande-Marlaska is one of the most popular and richest Jurist who was born on July 26, 1962 in Bilbao, Spain. Fernando Grande- Marlaska Gómez (born June 26, 1962) is an Spanish judge from Spain. The judge was named Minister of the Interior on June 18, 2018 by the Prime Premier Pedro Sanchez.
In 2004 the year 2004, he was appointed by be a judge in the Audiencia Nacional as a substitute judge in place of the judge Baltasar Garzon in the Central Court of Inquiry No. 5. He made his name on the national level. He was already a well-known teacher in Bilbao.
Until 30 June 2006, he was a member of the Central Examining Court number 5 of the Audiencia Nacional, temporarily replacing its head, Judge Baltasar Garzón. When Garzón returned to his post on 1 July 2006, Grande-Marlaska was assigned to the Criminal Division of the Audiencia Nacional. He ran as an independent candidate for the General Council of the Judiciary (2006), but was not elected.
On 30 August 2007, he ordered the opening of an oral trial for insulting the Crown to several graphic artists. In June 2007, it was decided to close the case against four directors of Air Madrid for alleged fraud committed during the crisis that affected the airline in December 2006 and, in September 2007, rejected the appeals filed by the General Association of Consumers and Users and the Organization of Consumers and Users (OCU) against the car’s filing.
He was appointed in 2003 to relocated to Madrid as an investigating judge for his district in the 36th Court of Inquiry.
Fernando Grande-Marlaska Net Worth
| Net Worth | $5 Million |
| Source Of Income | Jurist |
| House | Living in own house. |
Fernando Grande-Marlaska is one of the richest Jurist from Spain. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Fernando Grande-Marlaska 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)
Born in Bilbao in Bilbao, he is the child of Avelino Grande, a police officer with Bilbao Municipal Police. Bilbao Municipal Police He entered the judiciary in 1987. He was appointed to the Court of First Instance and Inquiry in Santona, Cantabria, from which he was the investigating magistrate in the trial in the case of Rafael Escobedo for the Assassination of the Marquesses of Urquijo. In 1990, he was transferred into the Bilbao Court of Inquiry No.
- He remained there until the end of his nine-year tenure. Then, he appointed the presiding judge in the Sixth Section of the Criminal Division of the Provincial Court of Biscay.
At the time he was able to take on the most significant case which was The Yak-42 crash in Turkey that killed the 62 soldiers who returned from Afghanistan on May 26, 2003. But, after four months of having arrived at the courthouse at the beginning of June 2007 he resigned the case, and attributing the blame for the accident to the Ukrainian crew, thereby releasing his Ministry of Defense of the incident for hiring a dangerous plane. On the 22nd of January 2008 the Fourth Section of the Criminal Division unanimously rejected the decision to dismiss the case, claiming that the judge did not exercise diligence in his decision and was unable to defend the victims ‘ constitutional right to proper procedure. After the case was revived and he summoned as witnesses military leaders at the time, as well as the former ministers Federico Trillo and Jose Bono. Then, on May 20th 2008, he indicted five commanders of the military with high rank which included the chief of the Defence Staff, Antonio Moreno who was the highest-ranking army officer in the moment of the incident and 62 counts of grave negligence.
Grande-Marlaska is openly gay and has been a long time activist against gay bullying. He is married since 2005 to his longtime partner, Gorka Gómez.
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Who is Fernando Grande-Marlaska Dating?
According to our records, Fernando Grande-Marlaska married to Gorka Arotz. As of December 1, 2023, Fernando Grande-Marlaska’s is not dating anyone.
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In 2018, the President of the Government of Spain, Pedro Sánchez, appointed Grande-Marlaska as Minister of the Interior.
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Fernando Ranked on the list of most popular Jurist. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Spain. Fernando Grande-Marlaska celebrates birthday on July 26 of every year.
On March 14, 2020, the Council of Ministers approved the “State of Alarm” due to the coronavarius pandemic in Spain. That measure gave the central government extraordinary powers to directly control the regional and local administrations and establish some constitutional rights restrincitons. Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez appointed Grande-Marlaska as one of the four “delegated competent authorities” and gave him the command over all state, regional and local law enforcement agencies as well as the power to close all needed roads and borders. In the use of these extraordinary powers, on March 15, 2020 the minister issued an order to all police forces to apply, in case of non- compliance by citizens with the measures established by the government, article 36.6 of the 2015 Citizen Security Organic Act which establishes fines of between €100 and €600,000 and, in case of severe desobedience, articles 550 to 556 of the Criminal Code, which establishes jail sentences up to 4 years.