The change of defense of the former president of the Cordoba CF Jesús León this Thursday, just a week before the third part of the Provincial Court the first trial in the Carlos González chalet case – for which he faced more than six years from prison – weighs down the major trial planned by the ‘Looting of Córdoba CF” which was scheduled for this month of October in the second section in which his wife, his two brothers and his right-hand man at the club also sat on the bench.
The former president of the green and white club – who faces three trials and sentences amounting to more than 16 years in prison He thus avoids being on the bench for the moment, the first, in the case opened by the prosecution for the alleged payment of Carlos González’s salary by León with club funds scheduled for September 25, 26 and 27.
Secondly, the resignation of the lawyer who accompanied him in recent years in this judicial powder keg, followed by the request for a suspension of the trial by the new lawyer, claiming that he “needed time to fully understand the case” –admitted by the Provincial Court– causes disorder in the planning of the judicial agenda where they had reserved the whole month of October for its celebration.
Now, the two sections of the Court of Cordoba will have to find a space of four weeks to view of the trial for the case of embezzlement of funds of the club and first of all the case of the chalet Moraleja must be continued, both facing the end of winter and the beginning of spring 2025, according to what judicial sources indicated to ABC.
In the middle of these two trials, Jesús Léon and his wife Isabel Madueño, as former president of the Córdoba CF Foundation, will sit in the criminal court for a third question linked to a crime of confiscation of assets for non-payment of a loan with Mesas Sport – for which they risked sentences of two and a half years in prison – also scheduled for next March.
Nine years in prison for embezzlement of Córdoba CF funds
It should be remembered that the former president of Córdoba CF SAD Jesús León is facing nine and a half years in prison and compensation of one million euros for the “looting affair” of the club which led to his arrest in November 2019 after leaving it on the brink of bankruptcy, according to the prosecution’s qualification letter.
The businessman from Montoro, in the prosecutor’s document, is accused of a continuing crime of unlawful appropriation in competition with a crime of unfair administration and another continuous crime of falsification of documents, to which is added the crime of money laundering that would have been committed with his wife, the president of the Córdoba CF Foundation, Isabel Madueño.
Former Córdoba CF president Jesús León was arrested on November 7, 2019, for actions within the club that “constituted the crimes” cited in “continuous” formThe prosecution summarizes how this decapitalization of Córdoba was forged: how Jesús León, from the moment he became chairman of the board of directors, taking advantage of his position and to obtain an illicit economic advantage, “proceeded to misuse of property of the CCFSAD.
“Personal decisions” in the club
For this, Jesús León, in the opinion of the prosecutor, adopted the decisions related to the heritage and economy of the club personally, without the knowledge or consent of the other members of the board of directors, and in doing so, he ignored the club’s own statutes and the code of ethics previously approved by said body.
One of the titles in which the prosecution accuses Jesus Leon in this case is the section on the payment by the club of one million euros for the project of the Sports city. In this case, the prosecutor recounts how Jesús León proceeded himself or at the request of another person to prepare, which he then used for his exclusive personal interest, a document called “Amendment in addition to the formalized contract for the construction of the sports complex” city of the CCF.
