THE Supreme Court Prosecutor’s Office decided not to appeal the sentence who acquitted the former president of the Generalitat Francisco Camps for the last fringe of the Gürtel affair which was open against the criteria announced by the anti-corruption prosecution. The prosecutor’s sources informed EFE that the decision, the motivation of which has not yet been revealed and which represents a change compared to the position announced by Anticorruption, in favor of the appeal to cassation against the acquittal.
Anti-corruption announced in October its intention to appeal the decision rendered last May by the National Court, in which exempted the former leader of the Valencian PP from any criminal responsibility, for which he requested a year in prison and a six-year ban for influence peddling in competition with prevarication.
He also announced an appeal against the popular accusation brought by two former regional 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 2009among which stand out the rentals for the Tennis Open or the major events of the Valencian Generalitat at the Fitur tourism fair.
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 judgment, the Chamber affirmed Camps’ “zero intervention” in the Fitur 2009 fair contracts because there was no “proof or indication of collusion” with Dora Ibars, then director general of the Institutional Promotion, as the accusations allege. . It has not been proven – the court said – that the former regional president “exerted pressure, suggestions, recommendations or insinuations” in Ibars, nor is there any “witness, writing or communication between them”, which “removes any evidence or indication of criminal significance”.
