This new, openly defiant brief adds to a long history of complaints and lawsuits filed by Sancho against magistrates, prosecutors, journalists, and former collaborators who have questioned his conduct or investigated his career.
The conflict originated in ordinary procedure 140/2022, processed in Valencia's Court of First Instance number 18. In it, Sancho sued members of the Governing Board of the Valencian Academy of Jurists (AVJ), whom he accused of self-proclaiming themselves directors without valid title and of formalizing agreements to appropriate 218,820.66 euros, requesting the absolute nullity of their actions.
However, the defense provided firm criminal sentences that pointed in the opposite direction: according to these resolutions, it was Sancho himself who created and controlled the AVJ to circumvent incompatibilities arising from his public office and channel private activities through a supposed “non-profit” legal organization.
On March 8, 2026, the court issued an order declaring the supervening loss of purpose and archiving the lawsuit. It considered that Sancho had lost legitimate interest after several suspensions due to criminal prejudgment in cases such as the well-known “advisory services plot” or the Egevasa case. The resolution, notified on March 9, provoked an immediate reaction. A day later, on March 10, Sancho filed a clarification, rectification, and supplementary appeal under articles 214 and 215 of the Civil Procedure Law. The appeal was admitted on March 12 and remained pending resolution.
After just over a month without a resolution, Sancho escalated his tone. In a brief dated April 15, 2026, and marked as urgent, he de facto accuses the judge of failing to comply with legal deadlines. He reminds that articles 214 and 215 of the Civil Procedure Law establish a maximum of three days to resolve clarifications, and emphasizes that this period has been widely exceeded.
No resolution having been produced… we come to implore that the appeal be resolved immediately.
The Platform of Those Affected by the Illicit and Criminal Activities of José Antonio Sancho Sempere considers this new episode an attempt to pressure the judiciary. In their opinion, it is unacceptable that, after decades of proceedings and convictions, Sancho continues to use the courts as a tool of intimidation.
Sancho's career is marked by numerous proceedings related to corruption in the Valencian local administration. In 2016, the Audiencia de Valencia sentenced him to two years in prison for bribery, a conviction later confirmed by the Supreme Court. In 2022, Valencia's Criminal Court number 18 sentenced him for a continuous crime of administrative prevarication, in conjunction with prohibited negotiations and abuses in the exercise of his function, demanding more than 150,000 euros for the damage caused to the Canet d'En Berenguer City Council.
The Platform sends a message of support to judges and prosecutors, urging them to continue resolving independently. It recalls that various judicial resolutions have dismantled Sancho's victimhood maneuvers, pointing to him as the “orchestra conductor” of the plot.
