The new year’s judicial agenda returns full of fair appointments. There are 44 suspects in total corruptionIt is claimed that he will take to the podium in 2024. Others, like some parts of the Taula case that are ready to conclude the investigation, are waiting for the investigation to end in the church and send them to be distributed to the Valencia County Court for trial. 44 defendants already have a set date for oral hearing: València PP’s Taula B case (4 defendants), Erial (15 defendants) and Requena and Enguera’s (5 defendants) Taula part case, and Taula’s removal of Caturla assets (1 defendant) defendant), the Egevasa part of the Asesorías case (3 defendants) and the Avialsa or fire cartel case to be heard in the National Court (16 defendants).
Three other separate parts of the Taula-Imelsa case are pending in court for the conclusion of the investigation and the issuance of an order to open an oral hearing: Part C of Alfonso Rus’ alleged money laundering, Ministry of Culture contracts, València City Council and bribes allegedly collected by Marcos Benavent (a piece that should include as defendants only Vicente Burgos, ex-husband (now deceased) of former Cultural Councilor Maria José Alcón) and the main piece this court, Marcos Benavent, president of Imelsa, the public company of the Valencia Provincial Council He will prosecute allegations of fraud and bribery against.
ZAPLANA LAND OF WATER
Lawsuit for allegedly bitten by ITV and Wind Plan
In the Erial case, 15 natural persons and four legal entities will be tried due to allegations of bribes paid and collected during the award of Technical Vehicle Inspection (ITV) and Wind Plan lots. The defendants include the former presidents of the Generalitat, Eduardo Zaplana and José Luis Olivas, as well as two of their alleged frontmen and the former’s narrowest circle of trust, such as the former chief of staff. The trial will be held in the fourth department of the Valencian Court, starting from February 1; This case is identical to the one filed against fifty former council members and former consultants alleging cuteness or small amounts of money laundering, after a nearly six-year investigation. PP of the Valencia City Council against whom it was decided to initiate oral proceedings. In this archived subsection of the Taula case, the People’s Party was also accused as a legal entity. According to the indictment of the Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office, Zaplana faces a prison sentence of 19 years.
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Sancho Sempere returns to the bench for water contract
José Antonio Sancho Sempere, Canet d’En Berenguer’s former secretary, will sit on the bench again next May over alleged bribes collected in exchange for non-existent or useless reports that allowed Egevasa, a publicly traded company, to get an extension. of the drinking water contract in this municipality in the Camp de Morvedre region. The economic crimes section of the Valencian Public Prosecutor’s Office accuses the company of paying 98,110 euros to Canet d’En Berenguer’s former secretary, José Antonio Sancho Sempere, to “guarantee the extension of the water service concession and that the transaction took place quickly and without complications” Sancho Sempere Given that ‘s has effective control over the town hall in question. According to the prosecutor’s office, Canet’s former secretary published four reports that either did not exist or “lacked legal content and contained only legal texts” and were of no use.
CASTELLIAN RIFLE
Work distribution in extinguishing forest fires
A total of 16 people accused of being part of a criminal group that allegedly conspired to manipulate the contracting and awarding of firefighting contracts in the air navigation sector will stand trial in the National Court from September. Former Interior Minister Serafín Castellano faces a 21-year prison sentence requested by the Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office. The former mayor of Benisanó is also indicted for allegedly forging a public document (three years in prison); a continuing charge of bribery (6 years imprisonment), embezzlement (8 years imprisonment) and illicit union (4 years imprisonment) and another pending felony for accepting gifts from the fire cartel (10 years disqualification from public office) 167,177.02 worth euros.
GÜRTEL’S LAST FAILURE
The legal future of the camps and 25 defendants will be determined
In 2024 (it is unknown when, it may be within weeks or months), the penalty for the last Valencian piece of the Gürtel land, which has been decided for eight months on contracts under 12,000 Euros, will also be determined. To the companies of businessman Francisco Correa, the leader of the Gürtel conspiracy. A total of 26 people were sitting in the dock, including the former president of the Generalitat, Francisco Camps, and three former council members, Alicia de Miguel, Luis Rosado and Manuel Cervera. According to the Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office, Camps faces up to a year in prison on influence peddling charges because Gürtel “did not intervene but removed the hiring obstruction.”
The Valencian Court evaluated Rita Barberá’s box “b” in 2007 and 2011
In 2024, three more parts of the Taula-Imelsa case will go to trial as we mark the tenth anniversary of the filing of the complaint that gave rise to this macro corruption case that gave rise to twelve separate parts. Three have already been tried (Thematic Events, zombies in Ciegsa and Imelsa, and the call center), archived from alleged bites in Ciegsa, three will be tried in 2024, and the other four are awaiting completion of the investigation. investigation.
From January 23, the second part of the Valencian Court will hear the case of the PP of Rita Barberá, which allowed the alleged election doping to the Valencian PP in the 2007 and 2011 elections. For these facts, former deputy mayor Alfonso Grau (already accused of bribery convicted and the ongoing investigation into the Azud case), María del Carmen García-Fuster (secretary of the PP municipal group and alter ego of Rita Barberá), José Eduardo Santon (former councilor and director of various municipal foundations) and José Salinas, Valencia Tourism Convention Former director of the Boureau Foundation.
In April, the trial of the former mayors of Enguera and Requena, alleging fraudulent recruitment by Servimun and Técnicas Legales Administrativas (TLA), will continue. The trial was postponed in November due to the inclusion of computer transcripts. In 2024, Máximo Caturla, former vice president of the Valencia Provincial Council, will also be tried on the grounds that he hid his assets when it was known that an investigation was launched against him. He faces two and a half years in prison.