The Supreme Court gives itself more time to see if the case that led to the Brugal case is repeated.

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taking into account complexity of the issue and there are still questions about which negotiation is not over. These are the reasons put forward by the Court of Cassation for extending the deadline. from ten ordinary days to two months deadline for making a decision on the given process The origin of the Brugal case, The largest corruption operation investigated in the province.

An alleged lawsuit Irregularities in the award of the Orihuela City Council’s garbage collection and street cleaning tender and it’s over with acquittal of 34 defendants after the court that tried him announced the decision invalidity of main accusation evidence What accusations were they based on?

The wiretaps, which were a sine qua non of the accusatory theses, carried out for three years, were invalidated, as were house searches, police surveillance and even some documents.

The 2nd Chamber of the Supreme Court of Appeals, which was postponed for essentially unrelated reasons, finally convened on February 28 and reconsidered this decision. appeal by the prosecution. The Public Prosecutor’s Office canceled this decision and repeat tryor held between March and December 2019 58 sessions, with a different court.

The chamber of which the judge of Alicante is a part Vicente Magro and the composition depends on the first call, created by Andrés Martínez Arrieta, Andrés Palomo, Leopoldo Puente and Ana María Ferrer, speakers.

Two former mayors and Ángel Fenoll

Among those acquitted in this case José Manuel Medina and Mónica Lorente, former mayors of Orihuela PP and the businessman of this city Ángel Fenoll was sentenced to a final sentence for tax evasion and also for the Calp garbage conspiracy, but this case is pending before the Supreme Court as well.

Both Lorente and Fenoll are waiting with him. José Joaquín Ripoll, former politician of the PP and businessman Enrique Ortizamong others, judgment Another of the Brugal-derived processes is the alleged Anomalies in the Vega Baja waste facility bounty.

In addition to Orihuela’s former councilors, the case involving that city’s dump had eight councilors and their representatives, including the opposition at the time, during their 2003-2007 and 2007-2011 municipal powers. Workers with Colsur SL companies and Proambiente SL, both from companies and directly from family members and the Fenoll community.

ten crimes

The Office of the Prosecutor and the special prosecution carried out on behalf of the Orihuela City Council, which did not apply to the Supreme Court, evaluated the defendants as suspects of terrorism. fraud, perjury, bribery, prohibited negotiations with authorities, influence trading, disclosure of privileged information, electoral crimes, illegal association, coercion and blackmail. And they wanted to be punished. prison sentences ranging from nine months to almost 38 years.

This Options Among those moved by the Supreme Reversing the decision and making a new trial in a different court because of events dating back twenty years, it’s happening because the same room gives a new verdict after confirming or rejecting all or some of the cancellations. accepted by the court.

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