Criminal Defence
When the criminal law enters your life, everything else stops. Our job is to set it moving again: technical defence, immediate presence and absolute silence about your name.
Criminal practice
What we defend
Criminal proceedings
Full defence in the instrucción (the judicial investigation phase) and at the juicio oral (the trial). The strategy is set down in writing before the primera declaración (your first formal interview as a suspect), not after.
Instrucción · juicio oralExtradition & European Arrest Warrant
Opposing incoming extradition requests, where Spain is the requested State, and European Arrest Warrants. Coordination with defence counsel in the requesting State when the case requires it.
EAW · INTERPOLEconomic offences
Fraud, money laundering, criminal tax fraud and company-law offences. Cases where the file weighs kilos and every figure must have an answer.
Economic crime
Criminal compliance
Criminal compliance and prevention programmes for the company and the business-owning family. The best criminal defence is the case that is never opened.
Corporate prevention24-hour representation on arrest
Presence at the police station or the juzgado de guardia (the duty court, staffed around the clock) at any hour, in your language. No one gives a statement without us at their side.
Always on callCancellation of criminal records
Closing the cycle: cancellation of criminal record entries (antecedentes penales) and police records (antecedentes policiales), a regulated procedure with waiting periods, so that a resolved matter no longer stands in the way of visas and residence permits.
Registro Central de PenadosDiscretion
The best criminal outcome is the one nobody ever hears about. Not your circle, not your bank, not the press.
We publish no cases, no names and no results. A matter that is resolved well leaves no public trace: no press release, no annotated judgment, no mention on a website.
What we defend, we do not display.
The first 48 hours
Secure call
Tell us what has happened, without filters. Everything is covered by professional secrecy (the Spanish lawyer’s statutory duty of confidentiality, akin to legal professional privilege) from the first minute, whether or not you go on to instruct us.
Immediate attendance
A criminal defence lawyer at the police station, the court or wherever needed. Until then, a single instruction: make no statement.
Control of information
We limit who knows what. Communication with family, business partners and banks, measured phrase by phrase.
Strategy in writing
Analysis of the file, scenarios and a defence plan. You will know where you stand and what comes next, without euphemisms.
Our conviction
An accusation is not a conviction. Our work lives in the distance between the two. Antonio José García Linares · Director · Socio fundador
We defend international clients who have everything at stake: wealth, residence, reputation. That is why every case is handled by a partner from start to finish, with a direct line and no intermediaries.
And for the same reason we publish neither cases nor names. The results in this area are told in private, one by one, in a consultation.
24-hour emergencies
If the call is today
An arrest, a court summons, a search of premises or a warrant that arrives without warning: do not wait for office hours. We attend to criminal emergencies at any hour, in Spanish, English, German and Russian.
Everything you tell us is protected by professional secrecy, even if you decide not to instruct us. Write to us at info@garzalex.com.
Urgent consultation, response within hours
A private conversation with one of the firm’s criminal defence lawyers. No obligation, and your name never leaves these walls.
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