The Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office has announced to the National Court that acquitted Francisco Camps, former Valencian president, an appeal to the Supreme Court against the sentence, according to reports. The country.
The anti-corruption reduced its request for a sentence for Camps to one year in prison for the alleged crimes of influence peddling in competition with administrative prevarication, in addition to the disqualification of passive suffrage. She also demanded that the former regional president be fined 250,000 euros (with subsidiary liability for non-payment of one year in prison) and banned from all public office for six years. The popular accusation, brought by two former regional deputies of the PSPV-PSOE, also announced to the second section of the Criminal Chamber of the National Court an appeal in cassation before the higher court against the sentence of acquittal in the last separate room of the ‘Gürtel case’.
The judgment, known last May, concluded that there was no proof, or even any indication, that Camps ordered the exploitation of the Gürtel plot beyond the confessions of Álvaro Pérez “El Bigotes” and Ricardo Costa, former secretary general of the Valencian PP. insufficient if they cannot be corroborated by other means.
For their part, the main leaders of the Gürtel conspiracy (Francisco Correa, Pablo Crespo and Álvaro Pérez The mustache), who reached an agreement in agreement with the prosecutor’s office, were sentenced to sentences of up to two years and three months in prison for crimes of administrative prevarication, falsification of commercial documents and embezzlement of public funds.
After the announcement last Tuesday of the popular prosecution’s appeal against the acquittal, Francisco Camps declared during a press conference that he was not going to “stop” and that he was going to continue his “dream” of returning to the political front. “They don’t scare me, they don’t scare me and they’re not going to stop me,” said the former Valencian president.
