The Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office and the favored accusations have requested the decide to ship José Luis Ábalos and Koldo García to jail with out bail upon appreciating the danger of escape, as reported by judicial sources. Now it have to be Judge Leopoldo Puente who makes the choice. On earlier events, the trainer has assumed the standards of Anti-Corruption, which till now had by no means requested him to imprison the previous PSOE minister and present deputy of the Mixed Group and whoever was his advisor.
Puente, teacher of the case opened for the alleged rigging of contracts across the Ministry of Transport in the course of the Ábalos period, has up to now rejected the requests made by the favored accusations (grouped below the management of the PP) to ship the previous minister and his former assistant to preventive detention, however the final time he denied that chance, final October, he warned that there was an “increasing” threat of escape because the trial date approached. The oral listening to is already shut as soon as Puente proposed on November 3 to place Ábalos, Koldo García and the fee agent Víctor de Aldama on the bench for the alleged corrupt plot centered on the sale and buy of masks in the course of the covid-19 pandemic.
This step taken by the decide has led Anti-Corruption and the favored accusations to current their accusation paperwork final week, during which they demand very excessive jail sentences for Ábalos (24 years for the Prosecutor’s Office and 30 for the accusations) and García (19 and a half and 30 years, respectively). And in these writings, each have requested the decide to carry a listening to to evaluate the precautionary measures. The request for top jail sentences is without doubt one of the standards that’s normally taken under consideration to evaluate the danger of flight, one of many risks that the legislation permits to avert with preventive detention.
Judicial sources point out that, in the course of the listening to held this Thursday, Ábalos requested to talk to say that he was not going to flee as a result of he has no cash or wherever to go. His lawyer, for his half, has argued that being positioned in preventive detention would imply a violation of the deputies’ proper to political illustration. The sources consulted point out that the Anti-Corruption prosecutor has acknowledged that membership in any State energy can’t be claimed “to evade Criminal Law” and that’s the reason, Luzón added, “justice is represented with an image with a blindfold on.” Koldo, who has arrived on the Supreme Court carrying a big backpack, has additionally assured the decide that he’s not going to flee.
Anti-corruption accuses Ábalos and Koldo García of 5 crimes: legal group, bribery, use of privileged data, affect peddling and embezzlement. In addition to the jail sentences, the general public ministry calls for for them a advantageous of greater than 3.9 million euros and compensation of 34,477.86 euros on a subsidiary foundation between Ábalos and García for Ineco and 9,500.54 euros for Tragsatec, the 2 public firms during which, supposedly, the plot linked Jésica Rodríguez, Ábalos’ ex-partner. For Aldama, the general public ministry is simply asking for 7 years in jail by making use of the mitigating circumstance of confession, since he has incriminated himself within the case and has offered documentation that, in accordance with Luzón, gives “relevant information” for the investigation.
Until now, the one member of the corrupt plot that had its epicenter in Transportation who has been in jail has been Santos Cerdán, whom the decide despatched to jail with out the choice of bail on June 30 and saved imprisoned till November 19. In his case, the trainer didn’t justify this measure because of the threat of escape, however slightly the destruction of proof, because of his function of “a certain preeminence” throughout the plot. Cerdán was launched after the Civil Guard searched the Acciona headquarters in Bilbao and Madrid and different firms linked to the plot, the place they seized digital units and documentation.
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