The spokesperson and deputy normal secretary of ERC, Marta Vilalta, has mentioned that her get together won’t accompany the president of Junts, Laura Borràs, this Friday at her trial within the Superior Court of Justice of Catalonia (TSJC) for alleged irregularities in contracts of the Institution of Catalan Letters (ILC): “It is a case of malpractice”.
At a press convention this Monday, Vilalta argued that the trial towards the suspended Parliament speaker “has nothing to do with political repression”, and has positioned it throughout the scope of malpractice within the administration of public assets.
“We have to be forceful towards corruption, malpractice or any suspicion”, and he has declined that the Republicans can lend their assist to Borràs within the trial to encourage Junts to provide his ‘sure’ to the Budgets.
Vilalta recalled that Borràs is accused of prevarication and documentary falsification and that her case “has no relationship with 1-O or with the combat for independence.”
Meeting Concentration
The former president of Parliament and president of Junts is dealing with trial for allegedly splitting 18 contracts to fee initiatives by hand from a good friend with out having to bid on them when she directed the Institució de les Lletres Catalanes (ILC).
The court docket has reserved Friday for preliminary questions and the trial will resume 10 days later, on Monday the twentieth, to proceed with consecutive periods till Wednesday, March 1.
On Friday morning, Borràs will arrive on the TSJC surrounded by representatives of Junts, which has referred to as a rally in her assist beginning at 9:30 a.m., stating that the trigger “is a case of political persecution.”
The Prosecutor’s Office asks Borràs for a sentence of 6 years in jail and 21 years of disqualification, along with a superb of 144,000 euros for the alleged continued crimes of prevarication and documentary falsification.
Suspended as president of Parliament
As a results of this trigger, Borràs has grow to be the primary president of Parliament to be suspended from workplace after, in July, the Table -with votes from ERC, PSC and CUP- utilized an article of the regulation of the Chamber that gives for the suspension of a deputy when an oral trial is opened for corruption crimes.
Since then, Borràs has witnessed the plenary periods of the Parliament from the hemicycle rostrum and, in his place, the vice chairman of the Chamber Alba Vergés has acted as president.
Along with Borràs, the good friend whom he allegedly favored with the contracts, Isaías H., and Andreu P., who allegedly helped him put together the budgets and invoices that he introduced to the ILC, shall be on the defendant’s financial institution.
The Prosecutor’s Office additionally requests for them a sentence for prevarication and documentary falsification: for Isaías H., six years in jail, 21 years of disqualification and a superb of 72,000 euros; and for Andreu P., three years in jail, 10 years of disqualification and a superb of 30,000 euros.
Speaker of the room
The president of the TSJC, Jesús María Barrientos, would be the speaker of the room that may decide the case even if Borràs’ protection tried to take away him from the case by asking to problem him for allegedly not being neutral.
The court docket, nonetheless, rejected the problem contemplating that Borràs has not given any indications that decision into query Barrientos’s impartiality and that he has not “compromised his impartiality, goal or subjective.”
protection skilled
Among the computerized skilled proof of the trial, scheduled for February 27, would be the protection skilled Emilio Hellín -now Luis Enrique-, whom the court docket admitted even if the Prosecutor’s Office requested to reject him for his conviction in 1982 towards 43 years in jail for the homicide of Yolanda González, a member of the Socialist Workers Party.
The trial could have three days devoted to listening to the statements of the witnesses and the interrogations of the defendants are set for Monday, February 20, though the order may change as a result of Borràs’ protection has requested him to testify on the finish of the trial, one thing frequent however Ultimately it’s a court docket determination.