He Supreme Court The judgment on the case of the payment in money of the headquarters of Genoa 13 is almost ready b by the Popular Party. As judicial sources indicate to OKDIARIO, it is expected to close in the coming weeks the deliberations begun in April. The National Court sentenced the former treasurer of the PP in 2021 Luis Barcenas to two years in prison for having paid B the sum of 1,072,000 euros for the work on the headquarters on Rue Génova. Although it is possible that the Second Chamber of the Supreme Court will adjust certain aspects of the sentence, Luis Barcenas He will not return to prison.
In the judgment of the separate part of the Gürtel case known as The Bárcenas PapersThe House condemned the former treasurer as cooperator needed of a continuing crime of accounting lie in competition with a crime against the Public Treasury. The architect of the company and his partner were sentenced to two years and 9 months in prison and a fine of 2.6 million euros. Today, the Supreme Court is studying the vast resources of the accusations and defenses to analyze each of the arguments. As a context, it is necessary to clarify whether the money in B that financed the party of Mariano Rajoy at the time is exempt from tax, as the popular accusation of the PSOE claims.
Several judicial sources indicate that the sentence has been in preparation since April. The calling of elections in Basque Country, Catalonia and Europe before the summer did not influence the publication of this judgment which requires a lot of work. A large part of the summary prepared at the National Court is not indexed so that the judges of the Second Chamber of the Supreme Court could consult it easily. That is why the deliberations lasted longer than usual. In some cases, it became necessary to review the statements made in court to confirm what was said on certain issues.
A few days ago, the Victoria Kent Social Integration Center (CIS), where Bárcenas and his wife, Rosalía Iglesias, are serving their sentences, approved that I don’t have to come back to the prison to sleep from Monday to Thursday, while they were to return at night, and accepted that they be under telematic control. The CIS Treatment Council in Madrid elevates them to the third degree under the Penitentiary Regulations, which do not require the approval of the Ministry of the Interior. Thus, Bárcenas and his wife will only have to go through once a month by the prison so that technicians can confirm that they are carrying out the telematics check satisfactorily.
Today, Bárcenas awaits the decision of the Supreme Court on his payments from Fund B, especially for the payment of the works of Génova. However, legal sources assure that the decision on the appeals will not increase your prison timeThe former politician entered Madrid’s Soto del Real prison to serve the sentence of 29 years and one month for the first period of the Gürtel case. In any case, he already benefits from the third degree and once in this phase, he does not have to return to prison in this context.
Let us recall that in December 2022, the Ministry of the Interior agreed to apply to Bárcenas the article of the Prison Regulations that allowed him to leave prison to serve the remainder of his sentence in a CIS. The former politician entered preventive detention in mid-2013 and bailed her out on January 22, 2015. After the conviction of Beltreturned to prison in May 2018. The court determined that the maximum sentence served would be 12 years oldwhich corresponds to triple the highest penalty imposedin this case, money laundering and against the Public Treasury.
Even though the new management of PP withdrew its appeal before the Supreme Court, since it considers the case settled, PSOE wants to extend it incorporating new evidence. These are emails from the former minister Christophe Montoro in which he allegedly spoke of maneuvers to confront the investigating judge at the time, Pablo Ruzin order to avoid a conviction for tax offences. Some emails seized in a court in Tarragona in a summary of Equipo Economico, a tax consultancy linked to Montoro.
In this context, the Supreme Court will study all the resources and close the file on the controversial reform of Genoa 13. In the coming weeks, the debate will be over, the judgment will be signed by the entire Chamber and it will be announced. . In this context, the PP confirmed that abandons his idea of moving to another headquarters and does precisely light renovation in the property in recent days.
