SEVILLA, 7 Nov. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The defense of the former socialist president of the Junta de Andalucía José Antonio Griñán has formalized a letter before the First Section of the Seville Court, requesting that said instance dismiss the letter with which the Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office has opposed his request to suspend the execution of the sentence that condemns the aforementioned former leader to six years and two days in prison and 15 years and two days of disqualification for continued crimes of embezzlement and prevarication, due to the specific procedure through which the Board channeled its subsidies for early retirement in files of Fraudulent employment regulation (ERE) and arbitrary aid to companies.
In his brief, collected by Europa Press, Griñán’s defense maintains that “the legal system prevents exceptional cases, such as the one that occurs in these proceedings, which mean that the execution of the final judgment should not be immediate or automatic, as seems to propose the Public Ministry”.
Specifically, Griñán’s defense refers to “the eventual suspension” of the execution of the sentence “until the pardon” requested from the central government is resolved and until “the incident of annulment” submitted to the Supreme Court regarding the judgment of said instance that dismisses his appeal, against the aforementioned initial conviction of the First Section of the Court of Seville.
“And eventually, if after the annulment was filed, until the appeal for amparo is resolved, by providing for the precautionary suspension of the execution of the contested judicial resolutions, in accordance with article 56.2 of the Organic Law of the Constitutional Court (LOTC )”, adds Griñán’s defense, arguing that “precisely the exceptionality of these assumptions requires an analysis of the ‘specific case’, which in the Prosecutor’s opinion is conspicuous by its absence.”
In addition, and given the mentions in the Prosecutor’s brief, he defends that Griñán “is not a corrupt politician, in the sense that one wants to give that disqualifying adjective, including the broadest possible”, an extreme that he considers “notorious, known to all and that could hardly go unnoticed by a specialized prosecutor’s office, accustomed to knowing corrupt politicians”.
(((THERE WILL BE EXTENSION)))
