Four years after the initial arrests and almost seven years since the first investigations began, the head of the Investigation Court has ended 8 cases. barren case Eduardo Zaplana and his closest circle of trust were investigated, two members of the organization Cotino family and another ex-president of the Generalitat, Joseph Louis Olivas’s photo., with a large group of collaborators. The magistrate had just notified the parties of the abbreviated procedural order that concluded the investigation and allowed defenses and charges to seek oral proceedings, dismissal (which has already been dismissed in the numerous sources presented over the years) or exceptionally dismissal. , request the implementation of complementary actions.
The judge is trying ex-presidents Eduardo Zaplana, José Luis Olivas, Vicente and José Cotino Escrivá, and two so-called Zaplana leaders. Joaquin Barceló and Francisco Grau up to twenty people in total. Finally, the judge decided to drop the case against the woman and one of Zaplana’s daughters. Regarding them, he claims “it is not possible to prove it” in the order that Levante-EMV has access to. Rosa BarceloThe same should be said of his daughter, if he had knowledge of the illicit source of money used to buy a vehicle or other funds used and disclosed by Eduardo Zaplana. Maria Zaplana Barcelona. As with the spouses of other people surveyed, as with holding positions at network companies, none appear.
The case came out at 22. when May 2018 Former head of the Generalitat and ex-minister Eduardo Zaplana was arrested at his home on Pascual and Genís streets in València by agents of the crimes group against the management of the Civil Guard Central Operations Unit (UCO).
this operation baptized by the Civil Guard “Barren”Referring to the administration, after years of alleged charges bites By Zaplana and his close collaborator circle In exchange for rewards such as a Wind Energy Plan or technical vehicle inspections (ITV), is one of the largest and most complex issues investigated in the Valencian Community, among other topics explored in this macro-cause of corruption. The 8th Investigation Court of Valencia and the Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office, together with the UCO, are the promoters of this voluminous investigation with international implications, which has been conducted in secret over the two and a half years since it began in November 2015. .
Erial investigators accumulate evidence that allows them to charge them with the full catalog of customary crimes in corruption cases: money laundering, bribery, false fraud, embezzlement of public funds, influence trading, contract fraud, tax crime, document fraud, illegal cohabitation are criminal and criminal grouping.
All these years, research has made recovery possible. Almost eleven million euros out of about 20 million euros were caused by bites By Cotino or Zaplana. The bulk of the recovered amount, about six million, has been deposited into account 8 of the Investigation Court since 2019, following the prosecutor’s confession. Fernando Belhot, allegedly the Uruguayan figure of ZaplanaHe voluntarily invested this amount that Zaplana had supposedly given him.