Marcos Benavent, former supervisor of Imelsa and self-styled ‘cash junkie’, has not attended the trial that’s being adopted within the Valencia Court in opposition to him on Monday for the piece of Imelsa’s ‘zombies’ and the president of the court docket has been pressured to paralyze the view for a couple of minutes, till it might be situated.
Benavent, accused in rooms B and F of Imelsa, was to seem this Monday on the trial that’s going down within the Court in opposition to him and 24 different individuals, together with the previous president of the Provincial Council and the PP of the province of Valencia Alfonso Rus . However, it has not been like that.
Around 10 am, initially of the session, the president of the court docket requested concerning the defendant, and the lawyer who represents him at this time has acknowledged that he assumed his protection final evening, since his important lawyer couldn’t attend, and since he didn’t see him within the room had despatched a message to the defendant however had not replied.
The president of the court docket recalled that neither Benavent nor his lawyer had beforehand requested the potential of not attending the listening to after giving an announcement, making their presence necessary: “The trial can’t be made to swimsuit the patron. There have to be presence day by day for all those that haven’t been disbursed”, has acknowledged.
For this motive, the president of the court docket has paralyzed the trial and so they have begun to name the defendant till, lastly, he has been in a position to be situated and has promised to attend the listening to. He has justified his absence in view by a scheduling error, since he thought there was no session at this time. The trial has resumed with out him.
Condemned by Thematic
A sentence of seven years and 10 months in jail weighs on Benavent for the Thematica piece of the Imelsa case, as acknowledged within the decision that was made public final week.
After the sentence was recognized, Benavent assured in statements to the media that his lawyer was going to attraction the sentence and expressed his confidence in not getting into jail. He additionally admitted that he didn’t anticipate such a ruling.
“The fact is that I didn’t anticipate it,” mentioned the previous supervisor of Imelsa in consideration to the media, because the sentence is near eight years, which was what the Anti-Corruption Prosecutor requested. “There has not been any consideration, when on this trial I didn’t also have a protection temporary as a result of it was not as right because it ought to have been,” he mentioned, referring to the change in protection counsel.
For this motive, he acknowledged at the moment that “this ‘castañá'” was not anticipated and superior that they may attraction the ruling as a result of the court docket didn’t admit lots of his allegations and proof and “as a result of there are various issues that aren’t in any respect clear.” According to his model, he then didn’t have “the perfect protection technique and I seek advice from the proof” and insisted that there was no “chain of custody” of the audio information supporting the case and there was “manipulation”.
In any case, he hoped he wouldn’t need to go to jail. “I do not need many to enter; I would like those that are dangerous to enter,” mentioned Benavent, who careworn that they requested for “eight as in the event that they wish to ask for 800, nothing occurs.”
For his half, his present lawyer, Juan Carlos Navarro, was happy that on this first ruling they achieved a part of an acquittal — for the a part of embezzlement of public funds for the cost of electoral campaigns of the Popular Party within the municipal elections of 2007 and within the basic ones of the yr 2008– and now they may attempt to repeat it with the remainder of the sections.
Therefore, they may current an attraction in opposition to the judgment of the Court that they may base on the “illegality of the proof used to take care of the accusation”, which is the pen drive that the previous EUPV deputy and present Minister of Participation, Rosa Pérez, offered on the time. . For the lawyer, the room, which rejected the request for annulment of the recordings, “has not entered into the allegations of the violation of the fitting to the digital setting.”