Carlos Jiménez Villarejo (born 1935 in

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) is a former

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in office between 2000 and 2004. As a left-wing democrat jurist, he is specialized in the struggle against

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s. He collaborates with

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's struggle to abolish

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centers. In 2014 he briefly represented Podemos in the

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. He stopped working with Podemos in 2016.

References

Bibliography

* Denis Robert, ''La justice ou le chaos'', Stock, 1996. Interviews and portrait of seven anticorruption judges:

Bernard Bertossa Bernard Bertossa was Geneva's public prosecutor from 1990 to 2002. He signed the 1996 " Appel de Genève" against international money laundering and other financial criminal activities. With French investigative magistrate Eva Joly, Brussels's kin ...

, Edmondo Bruti Liberati,

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, Baltasar Garzon Real, Carlos Jimenez Villarejo,

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1935 births Living people People from Málaga MEPs for Spain 2014–2019 Podemos (Spanish political party) MEPs {{Spain-MEP-stub