VALENCIA, 18 Oct. (EUROPA PRESS) –
“More than sufficient indications”, “indications of criminality” and “criminal acts of whose commission there are indications”. This is how the fifth section of the Provincial Court of Valencia sees the Erial case, with which it has dismissed the appeal of the accused and advocates putting the former president of the Generalitat and former Minister of Labor with the PP, Eduardo Zaplana, on the bench.
This follows from the order in which the court dismisses the appeals filed by the majority of the defendants in the Erial case, in which the alleged collection of more than 10 million euros in commissions derived from ITV concessions and parks has been investigated wind farms in the Valencian Community at the time of Zaplana, through an organization made up of a group of people close to the ‘ex-president’.
In this way, the Court confirms the resolution issued by the Investigating Court number 8 of Valencia, in which it was agreed to follow the procedure against those investigated by the abbreviated procedure.
The court does uphold the appeal filed by a defendant, since the resolution of the instance does not include the indications of criminality that are seen against her.
Many of the defendants in this case filed an appeal before the High Court, estimating that the court’s decision suffered from a lack of motivation, as well as seeing no evidence against it.
However, the Valencian court, after studying the texts, has dismissed them. It indicates that the appealed resolution contains “sufficient detail” of the facts that motivate the procedure for the initiation of an abbreviated procedure.
These indications are, in his opinion, “more than sufficient” to order the continuation of the procedure against the accused, “without it being lawful to expect the investigating judge to make a definitive assessment of the evidence or the collection of the investigation, which which is impossible at this procedural moment”, warns the court.
“The appellants intend –he adds– that the instructor makes an assessment of the evidence beyond what is appropriate in this procedural phase, there being indications of criminality against them, just as, in addition, this Chamber has had the opportunity to learn throughout the numerous resources that have been raised in the instruction that concerns us. For the rest, the story contained in the car collects the essence of the criminal acts of whose commission there are indications, “he adds.
