Anti-corruption asks to suspend Griñán's entry into prison, but demands more medical reports

The Anti-Corruption Prosecutor's Office has asked to suspend the entry into prison of José Antonio Griñán, former president of the Junta de Andalucía, sentenced to six years for embezzlement and prevarication in the case of the ERE, until they have more reports on the prostate cancer he suffers, both of the Institute of Legal Medicine of Seville as of the doctors of the Seville prison.

The letter from the public ministry comes three days after the coroner recommended that Griñán, 76, not go to jail due to the illness he suffers from.

But, at the same time that it supports the suspension, Anti-Corruption requests more reports on the ex-politician's ailment so that the coroner makes another "more precise about the origin of his imprisonment, which must be suspended in the meantime."

The forensic doctor recommended last Monday to the Seville Court that José Antonio Griñán remain free to treat cancer from his home instead of going to jail.

"After the personal interview and in light of the clinical information provided, it can be concluded that admission to the penitentiary center is not appropriate until the referral of his oncological pathology is confirmed by the urology and radiotherapy oncology services," considers the doctor who has examined Griñán, sentenced in the summer by the Supreme Court in the political piece of

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The coroner recommends that Griñán not enter prison for the 'ERE case' due to the cancer he suffers

The coroner, from the Institute of Legal Medicine of Seville, specifies that the diagnosis is "very close in time" and that the treatment has not yet been carried out, so it is "a predictive analysis" because they do not know what it will be the evolution.

She has no doubt that the diagnosis of cancer causes a collapse of the psychic structure of any person and causes "enormous" uncertainty regarding treatment and evolution, data "difficult to assess from an objective point of view."

She does presume that admission to prison does not help to cope with a disease of this entity, which requires family and social support, something that is "necessary and even essential."

Prosecutors conclude that in view of the report, dated January 3, they insist on the proximity of the diagnosis and that the treatment has not been started to allow the suspension of admission to prison.

But he demands these reports so that a more precise one can be made and so that another one can be issued later by the medical services of the Seville prison.

The decision will be made by the Court of Seville

Now it is up to the Court of Seville to make the decision on whether Griñán has to go to jail or not.

Last Monday the Court required the Anti-Corruption Prosecutor's Office and the PP, which exercises the private prosecution in the political piece of the ERE, to manifest themselves on the origin or not of the imprisonment of the former president of the Board after knowing the report of the forensic doctor.

The term to present his writings ends next Monday at 3:00 p.m., according to sources from the TSJA.

The PP, as explained to this newspaper by an interlocutor of the formation, plans to send his to the room this Friday,

The president of the Junta de Andalucía and popular leader in that community, Juan Manuel Moreno, was very clear this Wednesday about his position against Griñan going to prison for suffering from cancer, when the forensic report also endorsed that position.

"Personally, I cannot agree that Griñán, sick with cancer, goes to jail," stressed the popular leader.

His opinion, party sources explain, should guide the letter that the formation of which he is president in this community sends to the Seville Court.

The precedents also guarantee that the PP opts for the suspension of Griñán's imprisonment, since the party has always followed the trail of the Prosecutor's Office.

The president of the Board Juanma Moreno was speaking in an act, this Wednesday in Malaga. Álex Zea (Europa Press)

The national leadership of the PP also supports the comprehensive position with the disease suffered by Griñán that the Andalusian baron expressed.

This morning, his general coordinator and Moreno's right-hand man when he was on the Board, Elías Bendodo, has reiterated that Genoa shares the vision on the suspension of the former socialist leader's imprisonment is the same as his party in Andalusia.

"Mr. Griñán should be in prison for the ERE case, but we do not wish harm on anyone," Bendodo said in an appearance similar to the one he used in December when it was learned that the former president of the Andalusian Government had cancer of the prostate.

"We do not wish ill on anyone.

Obviously, if the former president is sick, we hope for his speedy recovery, ”he said then.

Griñán's defense requested the suspension of the imprisonment of the former socialist leader on December 22, the same day that the Court set a period of 10 days for the former senior officials sentenced to prison terms for the In the case of fraudulent EREs, they will enter a penitentiary center.

The former president of the Board indicated that he had been diagnosed with prostate cancer for which he was going to receive hormonal treatment and radiotherapy incompatible with his stay in prison.

Throughout 2021, 576 cancer consultations and 535 radiotherapy sessions were carried out in Spanish prisons, the latter all outside prisons, according to the latest General Report on Penitentiary Institutions that collects data from that year.

There are no statistics on the number of executions of sentences with jail sentences suspended for serious health reasons, according to sources from the Superior Court of Justice of Andalusia consulted by this newspaper.

As soon as the year began, the former councilors José Antonio Viera (Employment) and Francisco Vallejo (Innovation) entered the prison, along with the former vice-councillor for Innovation, Jesús María Rodríguez, and the former director of the Idea agency, Miguel Ángel Serrano.

Days before, former councilors Antonio Fernández and Carmen Martínez Aguayo did so.

Of the eight former senior officials of the Board, in addition to Griñán, the former Deputy Minister of Employment, Agustín Barberá, has not been admitted to a penitentiary center, on whom seven years of imprisonment weigh, who has also requested the suspension of the execution of the sentence for a serious illness and that is awaiting the opinion of the forensic doctor.