The Prosecutor’s Office has decided to back down and announced this Monday that will not appeal – as he initially assured – before the Supreme Court the ruling of the National Court that acquitted the former president of the Generalitat Valenciana Francisco Camps of the crime of influence peddling in ideal competition with the crime of prevarication of which he was accused in the trial of Gürtel case related to contracts awarded to the company Orange Marketbelonging to the plot.
Legal sources have explained that it has been the Prosecutor’s Office of the Supreme Court which has decided not to file the appeal prepared by its Anti-Corruption colleagues. The aforementioned sources indicate that the jurisdiction to present this appeal ultimately rests with the High Court Prosecutor’s Office, which has cited technical reasons for deciding not to go ahead.
In a decree, the high court considers “withdrawn” the appeal that It was announced by Anticorruption at the beginning of last October. This Prosecutor’s Office, specifically, stated that He disagreed, among other issues, with Camps’ own acquittal.
In the aforementioned ruling, the National Court condemned the members of the Gürtelamong them their leader, Francisco Correato his ‘number two’, Pablo Crespoand the person in charge of Orange Market, Álvaro Pérez ‘El Bigotes’, to two years and three months in prison for having complied with the indictment of the Prosecutor’s Office.
The judges also condemned eight other defendants sentenced to sentences of between ten months in prisonsuch as that imposed on the head of the technical cabinet of the Valencian Industrial Promotion and Safety Society (SEPIVA) Enrique Bortup to eight years in prison, like that of the Orange Market manager Candido Herrero.
On the contrary, The court acquitted several councilors and officials of the Generalitat Valenciana for public contracts that extended from 2004 to 2009.among which the contracts for the Tennis Open and the contracts for the Major Events of the Generalitat Valencia for their exhibition at FITUR stood out.
In relation to the accusation against Camps for his participation in the FITUR contracts, the ruling stated that it had not been “proven by any valid evidence” that the former president “exerted any 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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