The National Court has upheld an appeal by the former general secretary of the Madrid PP and former mayor of Valdemoro Francisco Granados and has revoked the decision of the investigating judge Manuel García Castellón to send him to trial along with 20 other people in piece 5 of the Púnica case, referred to to irregularities in the hiring of city councils in Madrid towns.
The magistrates of the Fourth Section of the Criminal Chamber are hearing the appeal of the former counselor of the Community of Madrid in which he pointed out that the events that have been investigated in that piece occurred between 2010 and 2014, that is, after he had left the mayor of Valdemoro and, even, in some cases, when he had already left politics. And he added that he had not been asked at any time about the facts of said separate piece.
In its report, Anticorrupción had supported Granados’ claim, understanding that his inclusion in that piece was due to the “error of transferring the appellant’s information from pieces 4, 8, 10, 11 and 12 in which he appears as investigated and participated nuclear in the acts of corruption investigated there”.
In its resolution, the Chamber emphasizes that the issue is not “trivial” since it has already had to rule on another similar case in which “an investigated person was included in the order for transformation into proceedings in a separate piece in which no was investigated.”
“It seems clear that the inclusion of Mr. Granados Lerena in the contested order has not been correct based on the explanations of the appeal, paid by the Prosecutor’s Office,” concludes the court presided over by magistrate Ángela Murillo.
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