The Prosecutor’s Office opposes the amnesty annul

The defense of Laura Borràs, former president of the Catalan Parliament and Junts, has asked this Tuesday to the Supreme to annul or at least remedy his sentence of four and a half years in jail for fractioning contracts illegally. An appearance in which his lawyer, Gonzalo Boye, has asked the court to forgive his crimes under the law of amnesty. The Lieutenant Prosecutor of the Supreme Court, who has represented the Prosecutor’s Office in the view, has ratified his criteria: that his conviction is confirmed and that he cannot apply the law of forgiveness of the crimes of the procés.

Laura Borràs was in charge of the Institution of Les Retres Catalans (ILC) from 2013 to 2018 before making the leap to politics to be a consellera of culture with Quim Torra and then president of the Parliament and leader of Junts, this last position until October last year.

The Catalan Superior Court declared proven that shortly after being at the forefront of the ILC, it launched the project of a web page that commissioned an acquaintance of his: Isaías Herrero. A commission that, according to the judges, jumped any administrative procedure and de facto the contract proven and then through illegally fractional contracts before the warnings of the officials. The agency, following Borr’s instructions and designs, awarded a total of 18 minor contracts for a total value of 335,000 euros including VAT, although it did not consist of a surcharge in those payments.

Borràs was sentenced to nine years of disqualification for prevarication and four and a half years of jail for documentary falsehood, a conviction that will imply his mandatory entry in prison in case of being confirmed by the Supreme Court waiting for a possible partial pardon. Herrero was sanctioned with two years in prison and Andreu Pujol, one of the subcontractors who made false invoices and budgets, one year and two months of prison. In a particular vote, one of the magistrates of the Catalan court opted to reduce his sentence to less than two years in prison while the court even raised a possible partial pardon.

His lawyer, Gonzalo Boye, explained to the Criminal Chamber that those documents whose falsehood is attributed to Borràs “are begins, not criminally false” and has relied on the particular vote of the discrepant magistrate to request that at least, at least, Your prison sentence is reduced. “The particular vote is very well developed on why the crime of falsehood is not given,” said Borràs’s defense lawyer. His prison sentence, he understands, is not provided and “exceeds what is reasonable and fair.” In addition, he stressed, there was no “any damage to public coffers.”

The lawyer has also ratified the letter in which he asks that these crimes, in any case, be forgiven by the amnesty law that affects the illicit related to the Catalan process. “We know the criteria of the Second Chamber regarding it,” Boye said about the multiple resolutions of the supreme about the amnesty, including the question of unconstitutionality they have presented against it in the Constitutional. “We request a sentence that lead to greater justice,” he concluded.

The Prosecutor’s Office has been represented by the Lieutenant Prosecutor of the Supreme Court, María Ángeles Sánchez Conde, who has ratified her writing to the appeal: both her conviction is reduced and the amnesty law is applied, although she has not alluded to expressly to this last point.