The Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office has reduced its request for the former president of the Generalitat Francisco Camps to one year in prison and six years of disqualification, whom it accuses of having given instructions to award a contract to a company in the Gürtel plot in 2009.
Anti-corruption, which initially requested two and a half years in prison and ten years of disqualification for Camps, has presented this Thursday its definitive conclusions in the trial held by the National Court for a ramification of the macro-cause, focused on alleged irregularities in public awards to the Orange Market company in the Valencian Community between 2004 and 2009.
After eight and a half months of intermittent sessions, the Prosecutor’s Office has removed the crime of fraud from the former president of the Generalitat and has requested for him a year in prison, six years of disqualification and a fine of 250,000 euros for influence peddling in an ideal contest with prevarication.
Camps’ defense, for its part, has requested the acquittal of its client and, subsidiarily, the application of the highly qualified mitigating circumstance of undue delays and the ordering of costs for the popular accusations.
The prosecutors in the case have considered the highly qualified mitigating circumstances of confession for the dozen defendants who recognized the facts for which they are accused, among whom are those considered to be the three ringleaders of the Gürtel plot -Francisco Correa, Pablo Crespo and Álvaro Pérez , El Bigotes- who are already serving high sentences.
In this piece of the plot, the three face a request for 2 years and three months in prison and a fine of 134,500 euros.
Among those ten defendants who reached an agreement with the Prosecutor’s Office are also former senior officials of the Generalitat such as Silvia Caballer, Vicente Farnós, Enrique Navarro or Enrique Bort. All of them have adhered to the conclusions of the Prosecutor’s Office.
However, the three former Camps councilors who have sat on the bench (Alicia de Miguel, Manuel Cervera and Luis Rosado) did not do so, nor did the former regional deputy David Serra, with respect to whom the Prosecutor’s Office, which requested sentences for them, of disqualification, has not modified its conclusions.
In its letter, the Prosecutor’s Office has slightly reduced the cost of mounting the Fitur display that was awarded to the Gürtel plot and for which Camps is accused, and has estimated it at 361,477 euros instead of 366,529.
The trial will resume on October 16 with the final report of the Prosecutor’s Office.
