The Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office announced to the National Court its intention to appeal the sentence that acquitted the former president of the Generalitat Francisco Camps for contracts awarded to Gürtel Networkas confirmed by laSexta through legal sources. The appeal was announced last Friday and will be heard in the coming weeks before the second chamber of the Supreme Court.
With its appeal, which the Prosecutor’s Office will present soon, Anti-Corruption will try to revoke the acquittal of the former Valencian presidentfor which he requested a year in prison and a six-year ban for influence peddling in competition with prevarication. Recently, the court that tried Camps issued a new order clarifying the sentence, giving one of the defendants, who was director of a company involved in the Cándido Herrero plot, a three-year sentence for one crimes, when in reality It’s been three months.
This resolution has delayed the deadlines a little and it is now that the Prosecutor’s Office has announced its appeal to the Supreme Court, just like a few days ago the popular accusation it made two former independent socialist deputies. Alongside Camps, three of his former advisors – Alicia de Miguel, Manuel Cervera and Luis Rosado – were acquitted, several former high-ranking officials such as David Serra or Salvadora Ibars and officials accused in connection with various contracts awarded to the company Orange Market . between 2004 and 2009, among which the contracts for the Tennis Open or the major events of the Valencian Generalitat at the Fitur tourism fair stand out.
The court imposed up to two years and three months in prison on the people considered to be the leaders of the plot -Francisco Correa, Pablo Crespo and Álvaro Pérez, the Bigotes-, who have been in prison for years, and also punished the others with different sentences, eight defendants who admitted the facts by accepting the sentences agreed with the prosecution.
In its 232-page decision, the Chamber affirmed “no intervention” by Camps in the Fitur 2009 fair contracts because there was no “evidence or indication of collusion for this” with Dora Ibars, then general director of Institutional Promotion, as the accusations claim. It is not proven – said the court – that the former regional president “exercised any pressure, suggestion, recommendation or insinuation” on Ibars, nor is there any “testimony, writing or communication between both”, which “eliminates any evidence or indication of any “criminal” importance.
