The trial for the separate piece K of the ‘Taula Case’ has resumed this Monday before the Third Section of the Provincial Court of Valencia, after two previous suspensions, with a confrontation between two of the defenses and the representative of the Anti -Corruption Prosecutor’s Office on account of the investigations of the Central Operational Unit (UCO) of the Civil Guard. On the bench the former mays of Requena Javier Berasaluce and Enguera Santiago Arévalo, both of the PP, and Óscar Martínez, of the PSPV-PSOE, in addition to the businessman Mariano López, ex-suegro by Marcos Benavent, self-denominated ‘Yonqui del Money’. It is a minor branch of the macrocause born of the separate piece D, in which all the defendants were acquitted.
The separate piece is born from the seizure of the mobile phone of the exsuegro of the ‘Yonqui del Money’. And towards that mobile the lawyers of the defenses have directed their looks. The one who exercises López, the penalist David González Wonham, has said in the phase of previous issues that his client was not present in the registration of the company’s headquarters, despite the fact that the seizure of his phone, according to the reports of the Civil Guard, appeared outlined in the office of the mercantile.
“My client was in my office, he could never be in two places at the same time; [su teléfono] He was requisitioned when he was arrested, we do not know what the lawyer said, who added: “Not everything is going to obtain the evidence.” The lawyer has come to accuse the UCO investigators and the Anti -Corruption Prosecutor’s Office of “False an entry and registration”, which occurred a decade ago.
Manolo Mata, lawyer of the former mayor of Enguera Óscar Martínez, has collected the glove and has also openly criticized the investigation of the UCO, questioning that the researchers of the armed institute would requiring Mariano López’s mobile phone. Mata has assured that the businessman was arrested and his mobile intervened “without coverage” of the investigating judge.
“With the mobile, you download all conversations, SMS, mails, hours of calls, geolocation, passwords in social networks … the seizure of that mobile is void full right,” said the lawyer. Manolo Mata has accused the Anti -Corruption Prosecutor’s Office of having piloted in the last macrocauses in the Valencian territory the “greatest violation of rights”, with the consequent, in his opinion, “absolute bankruptcy” of the right of defense. Both lawyers have branded research as “prospective.”
“Very serious” accusations, according to the prosecutor
For his part, the representative of the Anti -Corruption Prosecutor’s Office, Fernando Maldonado, has flatly denied the claims of both defenses. “The police can perfectly agree on the detention of the investigated, it was a police arrest,” he explained in reference to the arrest of Marinao López. The prosecutor has branded “very serious” the accusations of the two defenses and has risted that “they do not correspond to reality.”
“The civil guards will come here [a declarar] And they can be asked, ”said Maldonado, who has also denied that the facts have prescribed. The accusations of the lawyers” overflow “the right of defense, have apostilled.
The Court has agreed to assess the previous issues raised in the sentence and the trial, after two previous suspensions, has faced the statement of the witnesses. María Luz. RD, secretary of the City of Enguera at the time of the events, explained that it was a contract, by negotiated procedure without advertising, to bring public debt to emerge, although it was later for a “amount much lower than the one that had been foreseen.”
It was a “usual procedure” in “this size” municipalities. Invitations were taken to participate in the tender aimed at three companies, although finally only one of them was presented.
The official, enabled national, has declared that she felt “tranquility” when appearing an estimated price of the contract, “but then a percentage of what was actually collected was paid.” The approach of the contract was “correct,” as he has apostilled.
On the other hand, Josefa C., treasurer of the City Council of Requena, has affirmed that the inspection work in charge “was carried out.” “It entered quite a lot,” he said, between “200 and 300,000 euros.” The witness has also declared that the planned course by Servimun, the company of Mariano López.
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