First part Court of Alicante Social Graduate College had to postpone the hearing of its former president for the sixth time today, Francisco Javier Mendez Jarato allocate more 90,000 euros The money that several workers he represented as a lawyer and social graduate were supposed to receive from the Wage Guarantee Fund (Fogasa). The court decided to postpone a case that had been pending for almost ten years, after his new lawyer excused himself on the grounds that he had caught Covid-19 and was not in good health to defend himself at the oral hearing.
Those affected, who attended the hearing and were not surprised by the new restraining order, expressed their discomfort with this new delay, even though the First Chamber of the Court had decided for the beginning of next month. December A new date to hold the hearing.
Defendant Francisco Javier Méndez went to the Regional Court Transferred by National Police In a van from Fontnivel prison. Méndez had to go to jail last summer Serve 11 months in prison The court will give him a hearing in June 2022. Accounting gap at Alicante Social Graduate College. He requested the postponement of the execution of the sentence, but the Second Chamber rejected this request, as he had not paid any amount of compensation in excess of 300,000 euros stipulated in the decision.
4 years imprisonment request
Francisco Javier Méndez faces a pending request from the Prosecutor’s Office to imprison him for four years for committing a crime. Misuse of money provided by the Salary Guarantee Fund paid five customers, which approximately 91,000 euros, According to judicial sources.
According to the Public Ministry’s accusation, lawyer Francisco Javier Méndez represented the victims in the judicial process to claim the sums following the dismissal of the victims. marble company. Between 2015 and 2016, the defendant collected amounts ranging from 10,000 to 24,000 euros per worker on behalf of his clients and was obliged to pay this to the victims.
According to public allegations, the lawyer hid the money and never deposited it into his own accounts.
Resignation of lawyer
The previous suspension of this case occurred at the beginning of the year. His previous lawyer resigned He will make his defense on the same day of the hearing, alleging conflict of interest, as he said that he was defending some individuals who carried out the private prosecution in another case that was being tried in Alicante Criminal Court No. 3.
Since this newspaper has been published before, Judge José Antonio Durá He later expressed his anger because the case dates back to 2014: “So far you have not said anything, you have not brought documents to prove anything, you have not explained what the other case consists of. “There is no greater bad faith than this in terms of procedure.”
Judicial sources told this newspaper that the previous lawyer Sanctions were imposed after the disciplinary file was opened for the resignation in question on the day of the hearing in the Court of Alicante.