Valencia: Sky ECC acquittal followed by convictions
The frequently cited January acquittal did not stand. It was annulled in April and followed by a new conviction judgment on 26 June.
On 21 January 2026 the court acquitted defendants in a cocaine case centred on access to and scrutiny of Sky ECC data. The dispute concerned evidential weight and defence opportunities; the acquittal was not a general ban on Sky ECC.
On the prosecution appeal, the regional high court annulled it on 22 April. The same court had to reassess all evidence without repeating the oral trial, particularly information France supplied under a European Investigation Order. The official prosecution annual report confirms this history.
The court sentenced fourteen defendants to seven to sixteen years for drug trafficking. It treated the conversations as important evidence and rejected requests for new questions to the EU Court.
