The first trial for the Imelsa macro-cause has already been sentenced: the fifth part of the Provincial Court of Valencia has sentenced the previous supervisor of the defunct public firm of the Provincial Council, Marcos Benavent, to seven years and ten months in jail.
The self-styled and generally known as ‘cash junkie’ was accused of the crimes of prevarication, embezzlement, falsehood and cash laundering within the first piece of the case, that of Thematica Events.
Alleged irregularities in awards to mentioned firm had been judged. The courtroom has imposed a sentence on Benavent much like that claimed by the Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office, which requested eight years and three months in jail for the defendant.
Acquitted Juan José Medina
However, he has acquitted the previous mayor of Moncada with the PP and former vp of the provincial company, Juan José Medina, for whom the general public prosecutor’s workplace requested 5 years in jail. The trial got here after greater than six years for the reason that first arrests had been made on this process.
In 2014 Esquerra Unida took some recordings with the alleged irregularities to the Prosecutor’s Office and in January 2016 the primary arrests had been made. It included a number of sections, amongst them, an alleged diversion of funds for the fee of electoral campaigns of the Popular Party within the municipal elections of 2007 and within the basic elections of the 12 months 2008.
In this part, which was the one during which Medina was accused, the courtroom has acquitted all these accused of a criminal offense of embezzlement of public funds: Benavent, Medina himself, the administrator of Thematica Events, Rafael García Barat, and the PP as subsidiary civil legal responsibility.