A former driver for the Andalusian Government confirms that he spent part of 900,000 euros of public funds on cocaine and parties

The former driver of the Junta de Andalucía Juan Francisco Trujillo confirmed this Monday before the court that is trying him that he spent part of the 900,000 euros of public funds received on cocaine and parties, an apartment and land. The former driver of the former general director of Labor Javier Guerrero—now deceased—, brain of the ERE case, At the beginning of the trial in the Seville Court, he confirmed his confession about the waste derived from the fraudulent ERE case in Andalusia: “I continue to say that I am guilty,” he said in court.

Trujillo has tried to renounce his lawyer, but the magistrates have denied his request, after which he has answered the lawyer's questions, refusing to answer the accusations present at the hearing. The former driver on trial has confirmed his incriminating statements to the police in 2011, in which he admitted having taken out a policy on his mother's behalf, and how he created two companies for a poultry farm that was never launched and another for the hotel sector.

Now the Anti-Corruption Prosecutor's Office is requesting 14 years in prison, 30 years of disqualification and compensation of 1.5 million for prevarication, embezzlement and falsehood in a trial that is expected to end this week. During her testimony before Judge Mercedes Alaya in 2012—first instructor of the case of the ERE— Trujillo assured that with the money from the subsidies he bought up to 25,000 euros a month in cocaine – between five and 10 grams a day – and drinks for Guerrero, himself and his friends.

The judicial investigation into the case concluded six years ago, but until now the accused have not been brought to justice. Along with Trujillo and his wife—accused as a beneficiary for profit and whom Trujillo has exonerated in his statement—the former director of Vitalia Antonio Albarracín and the administrator of one of the driver's companies, Isidoro Ruiz Espígares, former socialist municipal mayor of Llanos del Sotillo (Jaén). The former driver has admitted that he lent 24,000 euros to his wife, but that he returned this money after mortgaging the house, a version also maintained by his wife.

At the same time, Trujillo gave his former boss about 70,000 euros in cash in addition to paintings, watches, a piano, clothes and cell phones as compensation for the subsidy that Guerrero had granted him irregularly.

The accused former driver tried to force the suspension of the trial with his attempt to renounce his lawyer: “I do not feel well served either in the assessments I have made or in the negotiations with the prosecution. I have no confidence in my defense, I am risking many years in prison,” he said before the court of the First Section of the Sevillian Court, which however ignored his plea.

Trujillo's partner in the company, Isidoro Ruiz, for whom the Prosecutor's Office is asking for three years in prison, denied that he wanted to set up a ghost company and alleged that the former driver advanced 450,000 euros of the subsidy, even though the poultry farm never arrived. to work. Regarding the hotel project, he has stated that the company worked and had more than twenty employees, and that it fully invested all the money received in subsidies. When the Board demanded the return of the subsidies, “he was already ruined,” he argued before the judges.

In 2012, Trujillo appeared in court before Mercedes Alaya accused of 11 crimes, but his statement was so revealing and unusual that he was provisionally imprisoned accused of 22.

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