The AN confirms the million-dollar Anti-Corruption bonds for Gao Ping, Nacho Vidal and other defendants in the 'Emperor case'

The Prosecutor's Office requests 47 years in prison for the alleged ringleader and 11 for the porn actor

MADRID, 23 Nov. (EUROPA PRESS) -

The Criminal Chamber of the National Court (AN) has confirmed the bonds of more than 103 million euros that Judge José Luis Calama imposed, at the request of the Anti-Corruption Prosecutor, to the main defendants in the 'Emperor case', which The oral trial of the Chinese businessman Gao Ping and another hundred other people, including the porn actor Nacho Vidal, is pending.

In several orders consulted by Europa Press, the magistrates reject the defendants' appeals, thus supporting the investigating judge in the sense of maintaining "the guarantee of the amounts indicated and for the concepts already indicated" in case they are convicted.

The Third Section of the Criminal Chamber, with the magistrate and former Minister of Justice Juan Carlos Campo as a speaker, points out the "inconsistency" of the resources, since the order to open the trial cannot be appealed, except for exceptions that do not concern in this case.

Campo responds to the appellants that they have not been caused any "defenselessness" and that it will be in the separate piece of civil liability where their allegations can be aired.

In February of this year, the investigating judge ordered the opening of a trial against Gao Ping, the alleged leader, and 102 other people, including Nacho Vidal, for the "systematic activity" of tax fraud and money laundering that they would have carried out between the years 2010 and 2012 through a criminal macro-organization.

Calama imposed bails in excess of 103 million euros on the main investigated, according to the indictments presented by the Public Prosecutor's Office and the State Attorney's Office, for crimes of criminal organization, bribery, threats, illegal detention, money laundering, against the Public Treasury, falsification of a commercial document, criminal organization, possession of false currency and against industrial property.

The Anti-Corruption Prosecutor requested a sentence of 47 years and three months in prison for Gao Ping, in addition to a fine of 77.5 million euros, while for Vidal it was interested in 11 years in prison and the payment of more than 50 million.

In the case of Gao Ping, Lizhen Yang and Weizhen Yang, the head of the Central Investigating Court Number Four agreed for each one of bonds for more than 103 million in fines and costs, to be deposited within ten days. These three investigated, in addition, along with ten others, must jointly guarantee, as civil liability, the sum of 22.4 million euros.

Calama also demanded a bail of more than 66 million euros from Vidal, an amount similar to that demanded from most of those investigated, the smallest being 7,680 euros. He only exempted a few from this payment.

Previously, in the indictment, the investigator reflected "rational indications to consider that the defendants are part of a complex international criminal macro-organization headed by Gao Ping" and "composed of successive groups and perfectly structured and hierarchical echelons".

The sole objective of Gao Ping's network, pointed out Calama, was "to carry out a systematic activity of tax fraud and money laundering, constituting a network of shell companies, at the head of which are different front men, and preparing the corresponding commercial documents (invoices) and public documents (passports) that are necessary to support these criminal activities".

According to the judge, one of the ways used by the plot for money laundering and tax fraud consisted of the centralized collection of money in polygons of Cobo Calleja in Fuenlabrada for its subsequent remittance abroad outside of legal channels.