Former judge Salvador Alba entered prison at nine in the morning on Tuesday, as confirmed by prison sources. The Superior Court of Justice of the Canary Islands (TSJC) had notified on Tuesday morning an order —issued on Monday afternoon— that ordered the “immediate” search, arrest and entry into prison of the former magistrate. The penitentiary center chosen by Alba is Las Palmas I, better known as El Salto del Negro, in Gran Canaria, TSJC sources reported.
The fact that he has appeared in the Las Palmas I prison does not mean that he will serve his sentence there. Once admitted, Penitentiary Institutions have the ability to transfer you to another center if it deems it appropriate for security or other reasons. Although from his environment there was talk of the possibility that Alba would appear in one of the seven penitentiary centers (all of them on the peninsula) that have specific modules for inmates who are members of the State Security Forces or prison officials to that he be confined in one of them, if he had done so it would not have been certain that he would have been assigned a cell in them. Prison sources indicate that, after passing through the so-called entry module, where the situation of the new inmate is studied before deciding his fate, it will be decided where he will be confined to serve his sentence. These same sources point to the possibility that he will go to a module for primary prisoners (who enter prison for the first time) or those called of respect (with inmates with good behavior who self-manage their tasks), little conflict. These sources, however, recall that the final decision will be made once the relevant interviews have been carried out by prison professionals.
Alba was sentenced in 2019 to six and a half years in prison for conspiring in 2016 to damage the public image of her then-career colleague Victoria Rosell (current Government delegate against Gender Violence), after she decided to run for the elections. December 2015 general elections on the Podemos list. As a result of that defamation operation, Rosell ended up renouncing parliamentary activity, although all the accusations against her were ultimately proven false.
Alba had tried to delay his entry into prison by raising a challenge against the president of the Superior Court of Justice of the Canary Islands, Juan Luis Lorenzo Bragado, whom he accused of having an “unusual rush” to take him to prison.
The Supreme Court confirmed in November 2021 the sentence of six and a half years in prison and 18 years of disqualification against Salvador Alba for the crimes of judicial prevarication, bribery and falsehood in an official document. The execution of the sentence was pending. Before trying to challenge the president of the TSJC, Alba had alleged a “potentially fatal” kidney disease that supposedly prevented him from traveling by plane to the Peninsula. Last Friday, the Canarian high court reported that the former judge had until 5:35 p.m. that same day to enter jail.
The search and arrest warrant issued on Monday and released this Tuesday clarifies, however, that last Thursday the requested suspension was denied to the convicted person and that he was “personally required” to “proceed to enter prison within the term of a day”. That Thursday he was already notified that, in case of not complying with this requirement, “the appropriate orders would be issued to the State Security Forces and Bodies to provide the necessary assistance for the execution of the sentence.”
What affects the most is what happens closest. To not miss anything, subscribe.
subscribe
Last Sunday, Alba’s wife, Teresa Lorenzo, assured EL PAÍS that she had planned to appear in person this Tuesday, as, in her opinion, the legislation establishes. “My husband has until Tuesday, October 18 at 3:00 p.m. to enter prison,” she said.
The last attempt to prevent entry into prison occurred on Monday, with the recusal, again, of the president of the TSJC, and of the magistrate Nicolás Acosta González. The TSJC rejected these challenges in the order released this Tuesday. In the opinion of the TSJC, the request to remove both magistrates is “manifestly extemporaneous”, given that “the composition of the court was already known by the party”. The TSJC, in addition, describes the initiative of Alba’s defense as “reckless”, because “it starts from some Twitter messages in which the challenged is not even mentioned.” “The documentary evidence provided evidence that its conclusion is completely unjustified and lacking in any foundation,” the order highlights.
Favor the PP candidate
The Superior Court of Justice of the Canary Islands and the Supreme Court confirmed that Salvador Alba illegally maneuvered in 2016 to favor a lawsuit by the then head of the PP list, José Manuel Soria, against Victoria Rosell, with which the popular Canarian leader He intended to remove the Podemos deputy from politics. Alba – who had expressly requested her transfer to the Investigation Court 8 of Las Palmas, in which Rosell had served as a judge until she requested her leave of absence to enter politics – reached an agreement with the businessman Miguel Ángel Ramírez so that he would provide her with documents that question the impartiality of Victoria Rosell as a judge. Since 2014, she had instructed a case for tax crimes against that businessman, then owner of the company Seguridad Integral Canaria and president, still today, of the Unión Deportiva Las Palmas.
In April 2016, José Manuel Soria (also a former minister and former vice president of the Canarian Government) had filed a complaint against the already deputy for Podemos, Victoria Rosell, in the Supreme Court. He accused her of prevarication, bribery and malicious delay of the criminal process. After the lawsuit was admitted for processing, Rosell was forced to leave the Permanent Delegation of Congress and resigned to stand again in the general elections, which (due to the impossibility of any candidate achieving the investiture) were held on June 26 of that year.
The documents that Judge Alba requested from the businessman to harm Rosell (contracts that allegedly linked the judge’s romantic partner, the journalist and businessman Carlos Sosa, with Ramírez’s commercial companies) served Soria to expand his complaint. But Ramírez secretly recorded the entire conversation with Alba, which in the end would make it possible for the judge to be sentenced.
The TSJC filed the complaint against Rosell in December 2016. “It is a good day for democracy and the trust of citizens in institutions,” the Government delegate against Gender Violence assured on Tuesday. “That when a corrupt judge or any person as closely related to power as former judge Salvador Alba is convicted, the sentences are carried out and he goes to prison, in addition to being expelled from the judicial career, it is the best news because he is not going to be be able to do anyone else.”
#judge #Salvador #Alba #enters #prison #serve #sixyear #sentence #conspiring #Victoria #Rosell