The Prosecutor’s Office has decided to back down and announced this Monday that it will not appeal – as it initially assured – before the Supreme Court the ruling of the National Court that acquitted the former president of the Valencian Generalitat Francisco Camps of the crime of influence peddling in ideal competition with that of prevarication of which he was accused in the ‘Gürtel case’ trial related to the contracts awarded to the company Orange Market, belonging to the plot.
Legal sources have explained to Europa Press that it was the Supreme Court Prosecutor’s Office that decided not to file the appeal prepared by its Anti-Corruption colleagues. The aforementioned sources indicate that the power to present this appeal ultimately rests with the High Court’s Prosecutor’s Office, which has alleged technical reasons for deciding not to move forward.
In a decree, to which Europa Press has had access, the high court considers “withdrawn” the appeal of cassation that was announced by Anti-Corruption at the beginning of last October. This Prosecutor’s Office, specifically, stated that it disagreed, among other issues, with Camps’ own acquittal.
In the aforementioned ruling, the National Court convicted the members of ‘Gürtel’, including its leader, Francisco Correa, his ‘number two’, Pablo Crespo, and the person in charge of Orange Market, Álvaro Pérez ‘El Bigotes’. , to two years and three months in prison for having complied with the Prosecutor’s indictment.
The magistrates also sentenced eight other defendants to sentences of between ten months in prison, such as that imposed on the head of the technical office of the Valencian Security and Industrial Promotion Society (SEPIVA) Enrique Bort, up to eight years in prison, such as that imposed fell to that of Orange Market manager Cándido Herrero.
On the other hand, the court acquitted several councilors and officials of the Valencian Generalitat for public contracts that extended during the years 2004 to 2009, among which the contracts for the Tennis Open and the contracts for the Major Events of the Generalitat stood out. Valencia for its exhibition at Fitur.
In relation to the accusation against Camps for his participation in the Fitur hiring, the ruling stated that it had not been “proven by any valid evidence” that the former president “exerted pressure, suggestion, recommendation or insinuation in the conduct” of the former general director of Institutional Promotion Dora Ibars or in the management bodies of the exhibiting companies at the Major Events stand at the 2009 Fitur Fair.
“But what’s more, there is no witness, writing or communication between the two in said period, which eliminates any evidence or indication with criminal significance,” he indicated, emphasizing that there is “no record that proves any conversation in this regard with Ibars – -whom the court acquits– or any of the exhibiting organizations and companies.”
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