The former PP deputy Alberto Casero, the same one who mistakenly allowed the approval of the labor reform led by Yolanda Díaz in February 2022, will avoid going to prison after having agreed with the Prosecutor's Office this Tuesday on a sentence of one year and nine months in prison. prison, six disqualifications and the payment of compensation of almost 70,000 euros for crimes of prevarication and embezzlement during his municipal period as mayor of Trujillo (Cáceres).
"You are never satisfied with this, but this is what it is," Casero said at the exit of the Provincial Court of Cáceres after the agreement reached between his lawyer and the public ministry during a previous hearing that lasted a little more than an hour. hour. The magistrate has issued an oral sentence in these terms of sentence to be served after the conformity agreement.
The oral sentence - the written one will be issued within a period of 20 days - declares Casero the author of crimes of prevarication and embezzlement of five public service contracts, sponsorship or agreements made between March 2017 to December 2018 in which the formality required for this purpose by regulations.
Casero, assisted by the lawyer Bernardo del Rosal, will not go to prison and will have to pay the Trujillo council an initial payment of almost 10,000 euros and 1,000 euros per month for 60 months.
Mayor of Trujillo between 2011 and 2019, Alberto Casero faced, according to the Prosecutor's Office's brief, eight years in prison, absolute disqualification for 20 years and the payment of compensation close to 70,000 euros to the council.
National deputy between 2019 and 2023, Casero voluntarily resigned from this act and his discharge from the party in March of this year after the Supreme Court's proposal to try him for possible crimes related to these municipal contracts.
The Supreme Court judge explained that the then mayor of Trujillo entered into a series of service, sponsorship or agreements with different people and entities, failing to comply with all types of formalities.
In fact, the magistrate pointed out "verbal contracts or contracts without processing or any publicity were prohibited in the cases where the amount required it, evasion of control mechanisms, direct assumption of payments for the integrity of the services that, in addition to newspapers, were provided to the entity." in which the municipality was only a part; fully subsumable in the illicit of prevarication".
This case has its origin in the Court of First Instance and Instruction number 2 of Trujillo, which opened preliminary proceedings based on a complaint from the Prosecutor's Office regarding contracts, agreements or conventions entered into with third parties by Casero during his time as mayor.
Since Casero was a national deputy, the procedure went to the Supreme Court (TS). After leaving its minutes, the procedure was returned to the Cáceres judicial sphere.
