The Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office has requested the immediate imprisonment of Eduardo Zaplanaformer president of the Generalitat Valenciana and former minister of the Popular Party, after being sentenced to ten years and five months in prison in the wasteland caserelated to the allocation of ITV stations. This request arises after appreciating a flight risk by the former leader, despite the fact that the sentence is not yet final.
On November 7, the Provincial Court of Valencia will hold a hearing for the parties to rule on Zaplana’s request for imprisonment. The Prosecutor’s Office request was presented just a week after learning the sentence handed down by the Valencian courtwhich condemns the popular for having received commissions in exchange for public concessions and having channeled them through a corporate structure in several countries such as Panama, Luxembourg and Andorra.
The former Valencian president has been found guilty of the crimes of prevarication, bribery, document falsification and money laundering. In addition to the prison sentence, he has been disqualified from holding public employment or office for 17 years and ten months, along with a fine that exceeds 25 million euros. However, he was acquitted of the crime of membership in a criminal groupone of the charges initially filed against him.
In addition to Zaplana, six other defendants have been sentenced to sentences of one year and three months to five years in prison. Among those convicted are people close to the former leader, such as the lawyer Francisco Grauhis former chief of staff Juan Francisco García and his friend and figurehead Joaquín Miguel Barceló. Businessmen Juan and Vicente Cotino, nephews of the former director general of the Police, have also been convicted. Juan Cotino.
Francisco Grau has been sentenced to five years in prison and a fine of 20 million euros for money laundering, while Juan Francisco García received a sentence of two years and 11 months for prevarication, bribery, falsehood and money laundering, although he benefited from a mitigating circumstance for his confession. His wife was convicted as a lucrative participant in the crime of money laundering.
For his part, José Cotino was sentenced to two years in prison and a fine for bribery, while his brother Vicente received a sentence of three years and five months for bribery, document falsification and money laundering. Other defendants, such as Joaquín Miguel Barceló and Francisco Pérez, received lesser sentences for their participation in money laundering.
The court took into account the confession of several defendants, such as Juan Francisco García and the Cotino brothers, who collaborated with Justice, which facilitated clarification of the facts and allowed the trial to proceed more quickly. This collaboration was valued as an important mitigating circumstance by the court.
Instead, eight people were acquitted in the process, including Jose Luis Olivasformer president of the Generalitat Valenciana, who had been accused in relation to the wind farms. Others acquitted include the former popular representative Elvira Suanzeshis brother Saturnino, the secretary of Zaplana Mitsouko Henríquez and several businessmen related to the case.
Finally, the legal entities involved in the crime are also absolved. wasteland casewhich closes another chapter in this corruption scandal that has affected Valencian politics and that has revealed the plot of illicit commissions surrounding the awarding of ITV stations.
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