Baltasar Garzon
9 May 2012. Baltasar Garzon, 56, known internationally for trying to extradite Chile’s former dictator Augusto Pinochet, was banned from practising as a judge for 11 years.
Garzon was convicted of ordering illegal recordings of corruption suspects talking to their lawyers in the Gurtel affair, a case implicating top members of the conservative Popular Party, which is now in power.
