The final hearing of the Valencia Gürtel conspiracy, in which the former president of the Generalitat, Francisco Camps, and twenty-five others took the stand, was held yesterday for decision, after 45 sessions intermittently distributed among interrupted opinions for eight months. with various events.
Before concluding, Camps’ attorney, Pablo Delgado, submitted his final report, which took almost two hours to request the acquittal of the former Consell president. And, as usual, the attack on the Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office for involving the former head of the Generalitat in this media case “goes beyond the limits of this media case, due to the psychopathological, relentless obsession and excessive interest in blaming my client in recent years.” Lecrim and Tax Law. During his report, Camps’ lawyer publicly asked in an impassioned tone: “Who controls the prosecution?” he accused. “We came to demand detention and justice,” he said at the beginning of his report.
The lawyer for the former president of the Generalitat expressed regret that the Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office’s accusation against Camps regarding the only unexpired contract for him was not consistent and specific, and that he faces a year in prison for the alleged crime. traffic offences, influence and lying.
This is the stand of the Generalitat’s major projects at Fitur 2009, and the Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office accuses Camps of influencing the then director general of Corporate Promotion, Dora Ibars, to award the meeting to the Orange Market. “There is no member of the administration who has been ordered to enter into any contract. Only influence through telepathic influence or applause is possible, because what was done was something that could please the president of the Generalitat,” lawyer Pablo Delgado remarked in an ironic tone, making the reactions theatrical.
Gürtel’s arrival in 1999
Camps’ defense of the arrival in Valencia of the Gürtel conspiracy, with Eduardo Zaplana at the head of the Generalitat and “which also carried out events in 1999”, and his invitation to the former manager of the Orange Market, Álvaro Pérez, to join Valencia in his place. He didn’t deny it, even though deep down he did. «It is in the spirit of Valencians to invite people to live in Valencia. “I understand that people from Cuenca and Teruel do not do this, but for us it is because people live very well in Valencia,” he argued. As an anecdote, Camps even sent prosecutor Ignacio Stampa to Valencia during a break in his testimony as an investigator in the investigation of this case. He even said that he invited me.
The lawyer also pointed his dart at Manuel Morocho, the police inspector in charge of the Gürtel investigation, ironically saying “he has a degree in police science.” «And he says that he has been investigating this cause for fourteen years, and that continuing to investigate means doing further research. Reason for cancellation” he decided.
He also attacked Álvaro Pérez, manager of the Orange Market and “bosom friend of the Camps”, and Ricardo Costa, former general secretary of the PPCV. “Neither Costa nor Pérez nor Lina Morgan made a rounds accusing Mr. Camps,” he assured of the statements of both of them after confessing to the crimes and reaching an agreement with the Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office. “Although the Valencia Public Prosecutor’s Office does not believe them and does not support them.”
Finally, Delgado described Camps as a “man of integrity” and “man of integrity.” “Perhaps this does not apply to others who are friends of Mr. Pérez,” he concluded, clearly referring to Camps’ former collaborator Ricardo Costa.
Francisco Camps used his right to have the final say before being heard for sentencing, “thanking the court for its months of work. As a citizen, I am at your service. And I want to thank the National Court, the three members of the court and the president,” he said in a much more measured tone than his lawyer had used.
Of the remaining twenty-five defendants, only Isabel Jordan intervened in court to “ask for forgiveness for having committed irregularities which she considered normal.” But no, they are reprehensible. And she has demonstrated a willingness to continue collaborating on matters that need to be prosecuted. And officer Patricia Callaghan, who assured: “I am innocent and have always followed the law in my 34 years as a civil servant.”