The former president of the Diputación and of the PP of the province of Valencia Alfonso Rus has affirmed that he’s “very calm” earlier than the trial he’s going through for the piece of the ‘zombies’ of the Imelsa case and has insisted on his innocence: “Already I need to discuss. He’s been ready for seven years,” he stated.
Rus has pronounced himself like this upon his arrival on the City of Justice of Valencia, the place this Monday he’ll sit within the dock for these accused of items B and F of Imelsa, often known as these of the ‘zombies’. The listening to will take about two months.
The former president of the Diputación has approached the courts round 9:15 a.m. and, to questions from the media that have been ready for him on the door, has assured that he’s “very calm”: “I’m very calm. I already wished to, seven years…”
Rus, questioned if he considers himself harmless of the information attributed to him and for which he faces a sentence of 12 years in jail -as claimed by the general public prosecutor’s office-, has replied: “Always, at all times” . “I already need to no less than discuss, as a result of my attorneys will not let me. Today I needed to testify however I do not know the way it goes. I’ve to be right here for 2 months and you will notice me daily,” he added.
Rus will face this trial together with 25 different defendants, amongst them, 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.
Imelsa’s Second Trial
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 previous supervisor of the general public firm Imelsa, Marcos Benavent, the self-styled ‘cash junkie’, as the principle accused . He is awaiting the sentence.
In the items which are going to be 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 well-known as Azud case– to oros six, in line with the provisional qualification of the general public prosecutor’s workplace.
The Prosecutor’s Office attributes to Rus the crimes of belonging to a prison 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 workers of Rus, Emilio Llopis, he claims the identical penalty as for the previous president of the Provincial Council for equivalent crimes, along with a positive and disqualification.
To Marcos Benavent, the general public prosecutor applies the mitigating circumstance of repentance and requests for him 9 and a half years in jail; whereas the then director of Human Resources and the monetary director of Imelsa, María Gracia Escrihuela and José Enrique Montblanc, face one other six years in jail.
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The prosecutor’s provisional qualification doc describes how the alleged prison group labored and warns that Rus, as soon as he achieved the target of being president of the Provincial Council, started to prepare Imelsa “for his personal functions and people of his cronies, each social gathering, as private”.
Thus, he appointed Benavent as supervisor of the general public firm, who had been a councilor for Xàtiva throughout his tenure -he was mayor of the town-. Both have been investigated for having carried out operations to gather cash exterior of authorized channels, rigging public contract awards.
Rus additionally “positioned” his “pal” Llopis as his chief of workers who, along with Caturla, shaped an settlement of wills to attain their prison functions exterior of any precept of public administration that ought to govern their actions, “configuring Rus as the top and ringleader of the group, since these folks had already been appearing as an organized group with the aim of utilizing the general public positions they held and sharing the advantages obtained, with Rus being the one who gave approval of their actions within the completely different organizations publics wherein that they had intervened”.
As a consequence of this group and “with the clear objective of political and private clientelism”, they used Imelsa to distribute favors, “they used its public funds to rent individuals who didn’t reply to a real train of features inside society, distributing public cash at no cost with the harm that this entails for public coffers”.
To obtain this aim, provides the prosecutor, Escrihuela and Monblanch additionally cooperated, which, “figuring out about this example of abuse and exploitation of a public firm”, helped “successfully” to attain the prison functions of the prison group created, “acquiring a bootleg financial profit from public funds”.
The folks employed below the orders of the defendants knew that they weren’t going to do any work in Imelsa and that their hiring responded to completely different private, skilled or social gathering pursuits of Rus, Benavent and Llopis.
Something comparable occurred in Ciegsa. According to the prosecutor, on this second public firm there was an “absolute lack of management” and an “settlement of wills to acquire cash and supply political favors of any type.” They additionally used Benavent, an individual linked to Rus, who positioned him as a set middleman to make efficient his prison thought of utilizing the general public firm the place Caturla was situated.