The Audiencia de Valencia has endorsed the instruction of the wasteland case, that affects the former president of the Valencian Generalitat between 1995 and 2002, Eduardo Zaplana, of the PP, and has rejected the appeals presented by some defense counsels of the twenty investigated for the alleged collection of commissions in the adjudications of the wind power plan and in the privatization of the Technical Inspection of Vehicles (ITV). The support of the Court to the last order of the head of the court number 8 of instruction is a decisive step in the opening of oral proceedings. The Anti-Corruption Prosecutor asks for 19 years for which he was also Minister of Labor of the Government of José María Aznar, between 2002 and 2004.
The fifth section of the Hearing considers that the appealed order contains “sufficient detail” of the facts to continue with the procedure in the oral hearing, in which some of the issues and annulments raised by the defenses must be resolved, as advanced by the daily The Provinces. In short, there is sufficient criminal evidence compiled by the investigation and the prosecution for the Court itself to open an oral trial. The new car was notified this Monday to the parties.
The judge prosecuted Zaplana after detecting purchases that the investigation identified as being made with illicit money from the commissions. In addition to various properties, there was cash that reached the former minister by different means. For this reason, Anticorruption requests the confiscation of 20.6 million euros, which are what the investigators calculated as mobilized by the organization to which they also attribute the crime of criminal group. In fact, the confession of one of Zaplana’s alleged figureheads, Fernando Belhot, allowed more than six million euros to be recovered, which were handed over to the court.
The roadmap that traced the plot to collect commissions was found in the hands of Marcos Benavent, who called himself the andwho of the money. It was given to this individual by a Syrian businessman who lived rented in the same apartment as Zaplana and who, according to what he said, found her by chance. The former president of the Generalitat has always questioned the start of the proceedings with this finding.
In addition to Zaplana, to whom the judge imputes the crimes of money laundering, bribery, falsehood in a commercial document and administrative prevarication, another former president of the Generalitat Valenciana José Luis Olivas will sit on the bench, for whom the Prosecutor’s Office asks for six years from jail Together with the two former presidents, both from the PP, an alleged figurehead of Zaplana, Miguel Barceló, will sit on the bench; the alleged financial mastermind of the plot, Francisco Grau, the secretary of the former Minister of Labor, Mitsouko Henríquez, his former chief of staff, Juan Francisco García, and the businessmen brothers Vicente and José Cotino Escrivá, family of the former Director General of the Police Juan Cotino, among others.
After the order of the investigating judge and the indictment of the Anticorruption known on October 10, Zaplana reiterated his innocence and indicated that he hopes to prove it in the trial “after these long seven years of inquisitorial instruction.”
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