The president of Villarreal CF, Fernando Roig, accepted this Friday his right not to testify before the Court of Instruction number 4 of Castellón, which is investigating the former president of the Diputación and the PP of Castellón, Carlos Fabra, for allegedly hiding assets to prevent the execution of his sentence for four fiscal crimes.
Roig refused to answer questions about the accusation of having paid bribes to the former leader of the PP through loans and collaborating so that Fabra's conviction was not carried out.
Roig already testified before the court for this same cause in December 2020, but the Provincial Court partially annulled the order in which he was prosecuted, considering that he had not been correctly informed of the rights in relation to the crime of bribery of which he was accused. .
So, Roig did testify and said that he had lent money to Carlos Fabra because he was his friend.
"I have the money in the account and I could help him and he felt like it, I wanted to or I could help him and I helped him," he said then.
According to the Anti-Corruption Prosecutor's Office, the businessman gave the former provincial leader of the PP more than two million euros between 2010, when Fabra still held the presidency of the Provincial Council and the party, and 2014. Anti-corruption asks Roig for four years and seven months in jail.
After Fernando Roig's statement, the head of court number 4 must issue a new order on the status of this judicial proceeding, whose instruction had already concluded.
The court opened this case in 2017 after a complaint from the Prosecutor's Office for the possible commission of crimes of frustration of the execution, influence peddling, money laundering and bribery.
The court is investigating whether the former president of the Castellón Provincial Council concealed assets from his estate to hinder the execution of the sentence of the Castellón Court of 2013 (confirmed in 2014 by the Supreme Court) for which he was sentenced to four years in prison and to the payment of a fine of 1.3 million euros as the author of four fiscal crimes.
He entered prison in December 2014 and served the sentence until May 2016.