The Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office has requested the immediate entry into prison of Eduardo Zaplana after his sentence to 10 years and five months in prison as the author of the crimes of money laundering, bribery, prevarication and falsification of commercial documents, in addition to a fine of 25 million euros, within the framework of the ‘Erial case’.
Prosecutor Pablo Ponce requests the precautionary measure of provisional detention without bail “due to risk of flight.” The representative of the Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office, in a letter to which elDiario.es has had access, alleges that the crimes for which the former PP politician has been convicted are “all of them serious” and “associated with corruption”, in the exercise of “the highest public functions both in the Valencian Community and in the Government of the nation.”
Thus, there is an “obvious social interest in the sentence being carried out”, given the existence of a “hidden asset abroad” owned by the former popular minister, “with evident economic possibility to evade the action of justice.”
Anti-corruption also refers to the “complex corporate networks” and Eduardo Zaplana’s access, due to his “relationships” and his “economic level”, to “countries, trustees and foreign banking entities that are not accessible to the average citizen.”
The court of the fourth section of the Provincial Court of Valencia has scheduled a hearing on November 7 to decide on the request for imprisonment.
The conviction, as reported by this newspaper, concluded that Zaplana collected illicit commissions throughout his political career in the PP.
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