José Manuel Romero Moreno (
Madrid, 11 June 1940) is a Spanish lawyer and university professor.
Family and education
He is the son of stockbroker and musicologist Carlos Romero de Lecea and Pilar Moreno Uribe and grandson of Jose Moreno Osorio, count of Fontao and civil engineer. He did his elementary and secondary studies at the College of Areneros of
Madrid. In 1959 he entered the
Complutense University of
Madrid. In his second year of college, he accompanied the Prince
Juan Carlos de Borbon
Juan Carlos I (;,
* ca, Joan Carles I,
* gl, Xoán Carlos I, Juan Carlos Alfonso Víctor María de Borbón y Borbón-Dos Sicilias, born 5 January 1938) is a member of the Spanish royal family who reigned as King of Spain from 22 Novem ...
.
In 1981 he received his doctorate for his thesis entitled "Fundamental rights and procedural protections in the nineteenth century in Spanish".
Career
He founded his law firm in 1991. It merged three years later with the one of the former Minister
Alberto Oliart.
In 1993 after his mother's death, he inherited the titles of
Count of Fontao and
Marquis of San Saturnino, continuing the family ties with the province of
Lugo
Lugo (, ; la, Lucus Augusti) is a city in northwestern Spain in the autonomous communities of Spain, autonomous community of Galicia (Spain), Galicia. It is the capital of the Lugo (province), province of Lugo. The municipality had a population ...
. That year King Juan Carlos appointed Romero as his Household's external legal counsel.
In 2004 he was appointed member of the board of directors of
Patrimonio Nacional and Secretary of the Board of
Real Instituto Elcano
The Elcano Royal Institute for International and Strategic Studies ( Spanish: ''Real Instituto Elcano de Estudios Internacionales y Estratégicos''; RIE) is a think tank based in Madrid, Spain.
It was created on 26 November 2001 as private foundat ...
.
With the arrival of the new Monarch
Felipe VI in 2014, he left the service of the Crown.
In 2015 he is appointed Chairman of
SICPA
SICPA (acronym for the former name ''Société Industrielle et Commerciale de Produits Alimentaires,'' no longer in use) is a Swiss company that provides security inks for currencies and sensitive documents, including identity documents, pass ...
Spain.
He is a Knight of the Real Maestranza of
Ronda.
Nóos case
The Nóos case, also known as the Babel operation, is an ongoing case of alleged political corruption in Spain which started in 2010, derived from the Palma Arena case. The leaders of the nonprofit foundation Nóos Institute, Iñaki Urdangarin, t ...
In December 2011 the press discovered that, as private legal adviser to the King, Romero Moreno had been trying to force
Inaki Urdangarin to cease his commercial activities linked to what later was called the Nóos case. His efforts were unsuccessful and Urdangarin continued his activities.
A year and a half later, he declared as a witness before the investigating judge describing his exact intervention in the matter. On 21 April 2016 it ended his involvement in the case declaring as a formal witness at the trial opened by this cause.
Personal life
Romero Moreno married Ana María Duplá (divorced in 2017). Their children are:
* Carlos Romero Duplá (b. 1972) married to Marta Lladó Arburúa, daughter of former Minister
José Lladó Fernández-Urrutia.
* José Romero Duplá (b. 1979) married to Patricia del Pozo Salinas.
References
Sources
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Diccionario Biográfico Español. Real Academia de la Historia. Madrid 2014.
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1940 births
Living people
Lawyers from Madrid
20th-century Spanish lawyers
21st-century Spanish lawyers