What the outlet published · Sentence 2
“Entre sus clientes están el exviceministro de Energía, Nervis Villalobos o el exviceministro de Electricidad, Javier Alvarado Ochoa”
Translation · ES
His clients include the former deputy energy minister, Nervis Villalobos, and the former electricity minister, Javier Alvarado Ochoa
What this claims, in our words · ES
Entre sus clientes está también el exviceministro de Electricidad Javier Alvarado Ochoa.
What the other side says
«El Sr. Baltasar Garzón Real jamás ha prestado ningún servicio profesional de la abogacía al Sr. Javier Alvarado Ochoa, ni personalmente ni a través del despacho de abogados ILOCAD, siendo el Sr. Alvarado Ochoa objeto de una acción penal, ejercida por la entidad pública estatal Petróleos de Venezuela, S.A. y a través del despacho ILOCAD, que se sigue ante la Sección de Instrucción del Tribunal Central de Instancia (Audiencia Nacional).»
Translation
"Mr Baltasar Garzón Real has never provided any professional legal service to Mr Javier Alvarado Ochoa, neither personally nor through the law firm ILOCAD, Mr Alvarado Ochoa being the subject of criminal proceedings brought by the state-owned entity Petróleos de Venezuela, S.A. through the firm ILOCAD, which are before the Investigating Section of the Central Court of First Instance (National Court)."
Baltasar Garzón Real, right of rectification published by El Español, 9 July 2026. EDITOR'S NOTE: here he does not merely deny. He points to an identifiable court case — naming the court and the claimant — in which his firm is acting AGAINST the man the article presented as his client. It is checkable in the court register, and it makes the accusation logically impossible.