Eduardo Zaplana is accused of six crimes for which the Prosecutor's Office is asking him for 19 years in prison. The former Valencian president and former minister of the PP will face on Tuesday, in the trial of the 'Erial case', the testimonies of a collaborator and two businessmen who could destroy his strategy.
According to the accusation, this plot of the so-called Erial case was designed and executed by people who were completely trusted by the former minister. The first blow to his defense came on Wednesday, when one of the people in this circle, his childhood friend Joaquín Barceló, admitted to being Zaplanna's front man. The testimony was devastating, but it is only the testimony of a defendant who could have changed his story to obtain some judicial benefit, says Juan Vicente Anticic, the head of Spain's Anti-Corruption Office, in an interview with El Pais. He adds that next Tuesday, the former president may suffer two more setbacks that could lead him to the doors of prison.