Valencia Provincial Court acquits 14 defendants: SkyECC data without raw-data access cannot rebut the presumption of innocence

In judgment no. 24/2026 of 21 January 2026 the Provincial Court of Valencia (Third Section) acquitted all 14 defendants in a cocaine-trafficking case built on SkyECC data. Following the Spanish Supreme Court (STS 854/2025) and CJEU C-670/22, it rejected the nullity challenges to the European Investigation Order and held that the missing Art. 31 notification did not render the evidence void. It then applied Yüksel Yalçınkaya v. Türkiye. The Excel and multimedia files had passed through at least two police filtering processes, carried no hash value or digital signature and were the only incriminating evidence. Art. 6 ECHR therefore required access to the raw interception data (PCAP/JSON), and without it the digital evidence could not rebut the presumption of innocence. The court declined a preliminary reference and noted that the question of remedies in France is pending before the CJEU in Case C-625/25.