“I have never been a supporter of conspiracy theories but here you really cannot believe the official version.” From this premise, the lawyer of the former president of the Generalitat Valenciana and former minister Eduardo Zaplana has defended this Wednesday the innocence of the PP leader as if the accusations were nothing more than a television script. The lawyer has criticized the instruction carried out by the judge and the actions of the Central Operational Unit (UCO) of the Civil Guard, “typical of the regime before 1978.” He has said that everything was a setup, “from the beginning” and “without judicial control”, and has given credibility to the words of former commissioner José Manuel Villarejo who declared that it was the former president of the Government, Mariano Rajoy, who, with the help of the General Director of the Police Juan Cotino, hatched the plan to accuse Zaplana to prevent him from challenging him for the leadership of the PP. At the end of his presentation, the lawyer once again attacked the judicial police and their bias, a vision, as he said, “of other times, when it was decided who were the good guys and who were the bad guys in the barracks.” Has kept.
Zaplana sits on the bench accused of the alleged crimes of prevarication, bribery and money laundering, among other crimes, for which Anti-Corruption requests a sentence of 17 years in prison.
“A montage”, “an artificial truth”, “the truth has not been sought at any time”, repeated the lawyer, who has used the prologue to the criminal procedure law, written by the jurist Alonso Martínez, uncle of the Count of Romanones, to find more descriptions of what he considers to have been the case: “as the summary advances, a truth of artifice is inadvertently fabricated that later becomes legal truth, but which is contrary to the reality of the facts”, he has read.
The lawyer has personally charged against the Civil Guard agents who made the reports accusing Zaplana and the plot of moving up to 20 million euros collected for the rigged award of the ITV tenders and the Valencian wind plan to the business group of the Cotino. “The experts are anything but objective,” he said, and he has accused them of having a bias “in all the reports.” “They have done what they wanted throughout the instruction,” he said. In his opinion, there are only “imprecise and open indications” in the case.
The defense has been trying to dismantle each accusation. He considers that there was no prevarication because Zaplana did not participate in the awarding of the ITV, although the president of the contracting table and his chief of staff at the time, Juan Francisco García, stated that it was “predetermined” and the Cotinos assured that they paid to take the contract. . “Where is the bribe payment? “In the sense of smell of the Civil Guard and that day their sense of smell worked poorly and they saw crimes where there were none,” he said about the bribery and money laundering that, according to the prosecution, was carried out when the money of illicit origin through his childhood friend, Joaquín Barceló, who self-confessed as Zaplana’s front man.
During his interrogation, Eduardo Zaplana justified that the documents that were seized from him relating to some of the assets that, although not in his name, were attributed to him, were not his but with his friends. These writings contain the names and operations of some of the companies accused of removing and reintroducing the money into Spain. According to the former regional president, they are documents that his friends gave him, with the sole purpose of receiving advice and not because he was a participant in the scheme. “Zaplana was a friend of his friends and if they asked him for a favor, he did it,” said his defense lawyer.
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“This defense has demonstrated the innocence of Eduardo Zaplana,” said his lawyer, who has concluded that the awards “were not subject to any predetermination by anyone and that Zaplana was never a beneficiary of the companies that received money” from the Cotinos, who They paid bribes for contracts.
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