Palma City Council has approved the payment of 326,639 euros in legal fees for the legal defense of two of the local police officers who were investigated, accused and ultimately exonerated in several of the pieces of the Cursach case, promoted more than ten years ago. . to investigate the alleged corrupt practices deployed within the local police force in order to protect the interests of the tycoon Bartolomé Cursach.
Specifically, the Board of Directors reported two cases, one worth about 180,000 euros and the other worth about 146,000 euros. So far, the municipal corporation has paid almost six million euros to cover the fees of the defense lawyers of the officers investigated in the previous case.
In a press conference, the spokesperson for the government team, Mercedes Celeste, recalled that the Consistory is considering transferring these costs to the Ministry of Justice after the sentence handed down by the High Court of Justice of the Balearic Islands (TSJIB), which sentenced nine years in prison to former judge Manuel Penalva and former prosecutor Miguel Ángel Subírán, who sought for almost three years to unravel Cursach’s alleged corrupt activities to safeguard his authority in the Balearic night.
Specifically, the highest judicial authority of the islands sentenced the two jurists for the crimes of obstruction of justice, failure to pursue the duty of leaks and coercion, considering that it is proven that the former judge and the former prosecutor deployed various illegal practices to incriminate several people under investigation for acts of those who, after an eventful judicial pilgrimage, were finally acquitted. However, the sentence is not final and awaits the resolution of the various appeals filed before the Supreme Court.
The summary of the Cursach case contained more than a hundred defendants and up to forty imprisoned, in addition to accusations of crimes ranging from corruption of minors to alleged homicide and episodes such as alleged parties with sex, alcohol and drugs in the VIP room of one of the Cursach nightclubs with which, according to former investigators of the case, a large number of local police officers entertained themselves in exchange for guaranteeing the protection of the tycoon.
