The Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office will appeal to the Supreme Court the decision of the National Court which acquitted the former president of the Valencian Generalitat Francisco Camps of crime of influence peddling in ideal competition with the crime of prevarication of which he was accused during the trial of the “Gürtel affair” relating to the contracts awarded to the Orange Market company, belonging to the conspiracy.
Judicial sources confirmed that Anticorruption announced last Friday to the National Court its intention to appeal to the High Court so that modify the 232-page decision rendered last May. Among the issues facing the Office of the Prosecutor disagreement with Camps’ acquittal.
The PSOE, for its part, also announced the filing of an appeal before the Supreme Court considering that a series of offenses accompanied the conviction.
In the above-mentioned judgment, the court sentenced the members of the “Gürtel”, including its leader, Francisco Correato his “number two”, Pablo Crespo, and to the manager of Orange Market, Álvaro Pérez “El Bigotes”, to 2 years and 3 months in prison for respecting the document indictment from the Prosecutor’s Office.
On the other hand, the court acquitted several officials of the Valencian Generalitat for public procurement which extended during the years 2004 to 2009, among which the contracts for the Tennis Open and the contracts for major events of the Generalitat Valencia for their exhibition at FITUR stand out.
Regarding the accusation against Camps for his participation in the FITUR contracts, the judgment specifies that it has not been “proven by any valid evidence” that the former president “exerts pressure, suggestion, recommendation or insinuation in the conduct“of the former general director of Institutional Promotion Ms. Dora Ibars or in the management bodies of the companies exhibiting at the Major Events stand of the FITUR 2009 Fair.
