Several defendants in components B and F of the Imelsa case have acknowledged within the trial that’s happening within the Valencia Court that they obtained completely different quantities of cash with out working within the extinct public firm and have focused the previous president of the Provincial Council and the PP of the province of Valencia Alfonso Rus and his then chief of employees Emilio Llopis as ordering events for the contracts.
These defendants – in whole, there are 25 on this process – have reached an settlement in accordance with the general public prosecutor’s workplace by which they’ve acknowledged the information and their sentence has been lowered, which has remained in 14 months in jail.
The first defendant to testify within the third session of the trial was José Estarlich, who was a entrance man for Imelsa’s former supervisor Marcos Benavent, a self-described ‘cash junkie’. He defined, to questions from the prosecutor, that he was employed in Imelsa nevertheless it was a “pantomime” that they’d arrange: “The contract was for him to have extra free time with which to do private efforts and for Benavent. I obtained about 14,000 euros and I’ve returned,” he mentioned.
The defendant has acknowledged that he knew Benavent beforehand and that he provided to rent him as a result of he was going by a tough scenario: “He wanted liquidity and he employed me to have cash whereas at the moment he was doing personal enterprise for me and for Benavent,” he repeated.
For his half, Miguel Ángel Mullor, one other of the defendants and a participant for the Xàtiva Olímpic, has acknowledged that Rus employed him to work at Imelsa however did nothing there: “I had a crew contract and obtained cash for taking part in. When I handed I used to be paid to work at Imelsa once I was paid as a footballer. I used to be employed to advise Isidro Prieto however I didn’t advise him. I do not know him”, he asserted.
Another defendant, Raúl Mateo Ángel Balufo, has uncovered that he was employed to work at Imelsa and, nonetheless, he didn’t develop “any job.” “Emilio Llopis employed me and he informed me that he was going to be his adviser. I by no means suggested him. I’ve returned 67,000 euros that I obtained”, he has indicated.
The defendants and the case
These two items, B and F, add as much as 25 defendants, together with Rus, the previous sub-delegate of the Government in Valencia and former deputy Rafael Rubio (PSPV) and the previous regional secretary of Education Máximo Caturla and the previous deputy of the PP Salvador Enguix.
This is the second trial of the Imelsa macro-cause, for the reason that first one was tried in May, the one associated to Thematica, with the ‘cash junkie’ as the primary defendant, who has been sentenced to seven years and 10 months in jail .
In the items which might be being judged now, B and F, allegedly irregular hiring has been investigated within the public corporations Imelsa and Ciegsa, Rus faces a sentence of 12 years in jail and Rubio –also investigated within the case generally known as Azud– one other six, in accordance with the provisional qualification of the general public prosecutor’s workplace.
The Prosecutor’s Office attributes to Rus the crimes of belonging to a felony group, a steady crime of embezzlement of public funds, administrative prevarication and falsification of an official doc dedicated by a public official. Likewise, Rubio is accused of a continued crime of embezzlement of public funds, forgery in an official doc and a continued crime of administrative prevarication.
For the previous regional secretary of Education Máximo Caturla and the previous chief of employees of Rus, Emilio Llopis, he claims the identical penalty as for the previous president of the Provincial Council for an identical crimes, along with a high quality and disqualification.