The Second Section of the Provincial Court of Córdoba has set the date for the major trial against the former president of the Córdoba Football Club, Jesús León, by the so-called ‘looting affair’, and that he was suspended a few days ago because he decided to change legal teams and his new lawyers requested temporary time off to prepare the defense.
In a judgment to which ABC had access, the magistrates set April 1, 2 and 8 as the start of preliminary questions and the interrogation of León and the rest of the accused: his wife and his brothers Ildefonso and José María, and who had his right. -club henchman, Francisco de Paula. On April 9 it will be the turn of the first witnesses Then the court will break for Easter, resuming hearings on the 22nd. The trial is expected to conclude on May 6.
This will last almost a month. the hearing he attends accused of crimes of money laundering, unfair administration, embezzlement and falsification of documents for his management as president of the Blanquiverde club, which he and the rest of the accused deny without success since the start of the instruction. In this context, the change of lawyer undertaken by León is framed, which leads the Chamber to postpone the start of the hearing, because according to the sources consulted, he wants to redefine the direction he was following in the case.
To this end, she entrusted her defense to lawyer María Victoria Vegaexpert in economic criminal law. Founder of the VDT Abogados firm, she works at the Andersen law firm, headquartered in Madrid, regularly handling corruption cases before the National Court and proceedings in different parts of the national territory and abroad.
According to the sources consulted by this newspaper, it is not only a change of lawyers but a modification of the entire defense strategy followed by the former president of Cordoba, with the prospect of being acquitted. It should be remembered that León faces requests for sentences exceeding 9 years in prison in this procedure and it is not the only one open.
The chalet in February
In fact, before sitting on the bench of the management of Córdoba, he will appear before a court of the Provincial Court in what is called the “chalet case”, relating to the renovation work undertaken by his company for which, at the At the time, he chaired the club, Carlos Gonzalez. They are accused of having hidden this personal expense in the invoices for the Córdoba Foundation Sports City, a project which was never carried out.
They sit on the bench alongside León and González, Isabel Maria Madueñowho then chaired the foundation, in 2014 and 2015. The first risks seven years in prison, which is what the prosecution requests in this separate line, whose prosecution was also postponed due to the change of defense undertaken by León.
The trial will be shorter anyway and his legal team is just as confident of an acquittal. It will take place, according to legal sources consulted by ABC, February 26 and 27 and March 5.
