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The Supreme Court gives itself until September to issue the sentence of the 'case of the ERE'

2022-06-22T13:30:06.873Z


The Criminal Chamber must decide whether to confirm the sentences imposed on former Andalusian presidents Manuel Caves and José Antonio Griñán


The Supreme Court has given itself until mid-September to issue the final ruling on the

case of the ERE

of Andalusia, in which the Criminal Chamber must decide whether to confirm the sentences imposed by the Provincial Court of Seville on the former presidents Andalusians Manuel Caves and José Antonio Griñán.

The Criminal Chamber has notified this Wednesday an extension of 60 days to pass the sentence, counting from last May 23, "due to the complexity of the case", which, discounting the weekends and the month of August ―not a business day for non-urgent judicial actions― would extend the term until mid-September.

However, the intention of the room is not to exhaust this extension and notify the ruling of the ERE in the coming weeks, according to the sources consulted.

The sentence of the ERE is one of the most far-reaching resources that the Criminal Chamber has pending resolution, both due to the number of appellants (19 convicted and two accusations, including the Prosecutor's Office) and due to the length of the briefs presented by each part.

The Criminal Procedure Law gives a term of 10 days to issue a sentence from the holding of the hearing, which in this case took place on May 4 and 5.

But this cap is extendable and the high court usually takes advantage of this option, especially in the most complex appeals that reach the Criminal Chamber.

This is the reason that the Supreme has alleged to extend for 60 days the maximum date to dictate the sentence of the fraud of the social and labor aid of the Junta de Andalucía between the years 2000 and 2009. “Given the complexity of the case,

The extension was taken for granted because otherwise the Supreme Court had to have issued the sentence in May, an option that the sources consulted ruled out before the hearing was held.

The car in which the extension of the term is agreed is dated May 23, but it had not been notified until now.

The intention of the court, however, is to issue the ruling in the coming weeks, without rushing the deadline for this extension.

Although in the most complex appeals, the Criminal Chamber has sometimes requested extensions of several months (the review of

the Malaya case

on urban corruption in Marbella, for example, lasted for a year), legal sources indicate that the ERE case has been accelerated because the rapporteur, Judge Eduardo de Porres, is freed from other matters to focus on this , and the five judges that make up the court that reviews the case – in addition to De Porres, the magistrates Juan Ramón Berdugo (president), Ana María Ferrer, Carmen Lamela and Susana Polo – are meeting frequently.

The Supreme has on the table the appeals presented by the 19 convicted (the main defendant, Javier Guerrero, died in 2020, although his family is in person), all of them former senior officials of the Andalusian Board.

Nine of them, including Griñán, are played in the Supreme Court with sentences of between six and eight years in prison.

The former Andalusian president is sentenced to six years in prison for a crime of embezzlement allegedly committed during his time as Minister of Economy and Finance when the Board, as proven by the Provincial Court of Seville, distributed, without control, 680 million euros to companies in crisis to guarantee “social peace”.

At the hearing held in the high court last May,

Griñán's lawyer argued before the Supreme Court that the sentence of the Seville Court does not identify "not a single irregularity" committed by the then counselor, for which he asked the Supreme Court to revoke the ruling.

For the same crime, four other former socialist councilors are sentenced to prison: Antonio Fernández and José Antonio Viera (Employment), Francisco Vallejo (Innovation) and Carmen Martínez Aguayo (Economy).

Former President Chaves weighs a nine-year disqualification sentence for prevarication, the same crime that the Court attributed, among others, to former councilors Gaspar Zarías (Presidency) and Magdalena Álvarez (Treasury).

For the same crime, four other former socialist councilors are sentenced to prison: Antonio Fernández and José Antonio Viera (Employment), Francisco Vallejo (Innovation) and Carmen Martínez Aguayo (Economy).

Former President Chaves weighs a nine-year disqualification sentence for prevarication, the same crime that the Court attributed, among others, to former councilors Gaspar Zarías (Presidency) and Magdalena Álvarez (Treasury).

For the same crime, four other former socialist councilors are sentenced to prison: Antonio Fernández and José Antonio Viera (Employment), Francisco Vallejo (Innovation) and Carmen Martínez Aguayo (Economy).

Former President Chaves weighs a nine-year disqualification sentence for prevarication, the same crime that the Court attributed, among others, to former councilors Gaspar Zarías (Presidency) and Magdalena Álvarez (Treasury).

Source: elparis

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