Eduardo Zaplana, former president of the Generalitat and former Minister of Labor, already has a post. Bank account opened after being blocked for more than five yearsDue to the investigation against money laundering. As stated in the instruction procedure given by the lawyer for the Administration of Justice of the fourth division of the Valencian Court, Banco Sabadell has started to open accounts in the name of the former minister, as notified to the court by the banking institution. I will try it starting from February 1st.
Like the other 15 defendants in the Erial case, Zaplana has had all of his accounts blocked since May 22, 2018, when the case began with the arrest of the most prominent defendants by order of the Court of Inquiry 8. In the investigation, which started on November 20, 2015 and ended in October 2022, the Court of Inquiry 8 had seized the bank accounts of the 12 people investigated (5.2 million accumulated accounts) and 245,915 euros in cash seized during the searches. Added to these amounts was 6,734,026.1 euros given by Fernando Belhot, the alleged Uruguayan soloist of Eduardo Zaplana. The delivery of this money led to Zaplana’s release from prison on February 7, 2019.
Zaplana managed to obtain authority to open an account “for the direct debit of the income of his pension and other assets, receipts, cards and ordinary payments”, while the Erial case was dismissed by distribution in the fourth division of the Valencian Court.
In May, an order signed by chamber president Pedro Castellano and judges Isabel Sifres and Pilar Mur decided to lift the Generalitat’s former president’s banking “veto” “given its compatibility with civil security measures.” obligations.” previously acknowledged and their consistency with the freedom of work and economic action granted to the defendant to date, this document serves as proof of use in the contractual claim.
Although the reluctance of banking institutions to open accounts for people under investigation for money laundering led to the fact that the fourth unit had to act as an intermediary for the former minister, who finally managed to open the bank account.
The fourth section also contains letters in which many of the fifteen defendants requested to testify at the end (in June) of the hearings, rather than at the beginning (February). The petition that the court will decide upon when the hearing begins.