The Prosecutor's Office opposes suspending Griñán's prison sentence for the incident of nullity to the Supreme Court

He explains that in his previous report, refusing to suspend prison sentences, he already took "into account" the incidents of annulment raised

SEVILLA, 10 Nov. (EUROPA PRESS) -

The Anti-Corruption Prosecutor's Office has submitted a letter to the Seville Court, opposing the requests for suspension of the sentence of the defenses of those sentenced to prison in the sentence of the specific procedure through which the Board channeled subsidies for early retirement in employment regulation files (ERE) fraudulent and arbitrary aid to companies; requests among which is that of the former socialist president of the Junta de Andalucía José Antonio Griñán, regarding the incidents of annulment raised before the sentence issued in this regard by the Supreme Court.

In its brief, collected by Europa Press, the Anti-Corruption Prosecutor's Office responds to the ruling issued on November 4 by the First Section of the Seville Court, a resolution in which said instance stated that during the past month of October, it had been receiving different writings by Griñán's defense counsel, the former Minister of the Treasury Carmen Martínez Aguayo, the former Minister of Innovation Francisco Vallejo, the former Minister of Employment and Technological Development José Antonio Viera, the former Minister of Employment Antonio Fernández, the former director of the IDEA agency Miguel Ángel Serrano, the former General Director of Labor Juan Márquez, the former Deputy Minister of Innovation Jesús María Rodríguez Román and the former General Director of Budgets of the Board Vicente Lozano.

In all these writings, according to the ruling, the defenses request the suspension of the sentences imposed on the accused thanks to the filing in the vast majority of cases of incidents of nullity before the Supreme Court, with respect to the sentence of said instance that resolves the cassation appeals filed against the initial sentence of the First Section of the Court of Seville, which sentenced 19 of the 21 former senior socialist officials of the Junta de Andalucía judged by the financing system of the ERE.

Former President Griñán, specifically, was sentenced to six years and two days in prison and 15 years and two days of disqualification, for continued crimes of embezzlement and prevarication.

This sentence of the Supreme Court, let us remember, absolves three technical general secretaries initially convicted by the Court of Seville and reduces the sentence of the former General Director of Labor Juan Márquez for appreciating the analogical mitigation of damage repair; maintaining that yes the rest of sentences imposed by the First Section of the Hearing.

In saying that it confirmed the prison sentences for José Antonio Griñán, the former Employment Ministers Antonio Fernández and José Antonio Viera; the former Minister of Innovation Francisco Vallejo; the former Deputy Minister of Employment Agustín Barberá; the former Treasury Minister Carmen Martínez Aguayo; former director general of IDEA Miguel Ángel Serrano; the former General Director of Labor Juan Márquez and the former Deputy Minister of Innovation Jesús María Rodríguez Román.

After giving an account of such writings, the First Section of the Seville Court agreed to transfer them to the Anti-Corruption Prosecutor's Office and to the personal accusations, "so that they can allege what is convenient within three days", in the case of a provision susceptible to appeal.

Previously, let us remember, the First Section of the Court of Seville had already asked the parties if it suspended the entry into prison of the aforementioned defendants sentenced to prison, pending the processing of their respective pardon petitions to the central Government, already weighing a report from the Anti-Corruption Prosecutor's Office that opposes the requests to suspend the execution of prison sentences.

In this sense, the Anti-Corruption Prosecutor's Office explains in this new letter submitted to the First Section of the Seville Court, that in its previous report it already took into account "to assess the origin of the suspension of the custodial sentence the fact of the presentation by the convicts of an incident of annulment, when announced by their procedural representations in their respective writings".

For this reason, "the sentence handed down being firm and this being due to be fulfilled", the Anti-Corruption Prosecutor's Office reiterates "in all its extremes the content of the report dated November 2, 2022", by which it was already opposed to the suspension of the sentence of prison imposed on the convicts Griñán Martínez, Fernández García, Viera Chacón, Vallejo Serrano, Barberá Salvador, Rodríguez Román, Márquez Contreras, Serrano Aguilar and Martínez Aguayo".

"In the same way, the suspension of the special disqualification sentence to which Antonio Vicente Lozano Peña was sentenced and whose compliance was already required by order, firm, dated October 11, 2022, is not appropriate, being irrelevant to this purpose the presentation of the incident of annulment before the Supreme Court", conclude the prosecutors Juan Enrique Egocheaga and Manuel Fernández Guerra.