The Chief Anti-Corruption Prosecutor asks that "criminal responsibility not be diluted" in full embezzlement reform

Luzón insists on the need to combat revolving doors and improve public contracting mechanisms

MADRID, 14 Dic. (EUROPA PRESS) -

The Chief Anti-Corruption Prosecutor, Alejandro Luzón, has asked the political class this Wednesday not to take a step back and "not to dilute criminal responsibility" coinciding with the controversy generated by the reform of the crime of embezzlement by PSOE and CKD.

Luzón expressed himself in this way during his speech at the commemorative act for the 25th anniversary of the Special Prosecutor's Office against Corruption and Organized Crime, in which he assured that "political will is needed to improve the prevention of corruption."

Along these lines, Luzón has focused on the need to reinforce transparency and review revolving doors, as well as improve public procurement control mechanisms, among other issues.

In his opinion, "much remains to be done in the fight against corruption" but, he added, the "recipes are known". Thus, Luzón has defended the Prosecutor's Office that he directs as an "unquestionable benchmark in the prosecution of organized crime." What was born a quarter of a century ago as a "pioneering experience", he has defended, was soon exported to different countries of the European Union.

Thus, the chief prosecutor has asked citizens not to stop denouncing and to continue "getting irritated and scandalized by each case of corruption." "A society that minimizes it or considers it inherent to the system itself is a society sick with that disaffection syndrome that can end up delegitimizing the rule of law," he warned.

"Time is passing and corruption is still present among us (...) Without falling into a pernicious complacency, I believe that the Prosecutor's Office has fulfilled the objectives that it set or established at its birth. It is prepared for the future," Luzón has settled.

For his part, the State Attorney General, Álvaro García Ortiz, has announced the publication this Thursday of a circular regarding the investigative proceedings coordinated by the Prosecutor's Office and whose objective is to unify the work of the representatives of the Public Ministry throughout Spain. .

The objective, he pointed out, is to "make a manual, a book, a study" that details what the function of prosecutors should be "in the territory and provide tools to advance in the prosecution of crime."

"We want to earn the trust of the citizens so that it is society that demands that we be the prosecutors who lead the investigation. I want to reiterate the commitment of the Spanish Prosecutor's Office, with an outstretched hand to the rest of the institutions that can contribute, with their proposals , so that the fight against corruption does not cease", he explained.

During his speech, the State Attorney General also vindicated the work of the Anti-Corruption Prosecutor, "a benchmark" and "a pioneer in Europe" since its creation more than a quarter of a century ago.

"We have to put on the medals that do not place us. The Prosecutor's Office has been corrupt in European institutions as with the European Prosecutor's Office and it has been in certain countries. Nothing would have been possible if it had not been for the work of all the prosecutors who they have carried out their duties with an example", García Ortiz has defended.

In this sense, the State Attorney General has celebrated the successes achieved by Anticorruption, although he has assured that these are still "the failures of Spanish society." "But it is still a success that we have effective instruments to achieve it," he added.

The event, held at the headquarters of the State Attorney General's Office, was attended by the interim president of the General Council of the Judiciary (CGPJ) Rafael Mozo, the former Justice Minister Dolores Delgado and the former State Attorney General María Jesús Segarra among others.