The former president of the Junta de Andalucía, José Antonio, has completed the radiotherapy sessions for the prostate cancer he suffers from, a treatment that led to the postponement of his imprisonment. Now that it has ended, the Seville Court has requested a new report from the Institute of Legal Medicine (IML) to assess whether it is possible to continue the fight against his disease in prison.
As reported this Wednesday by the Superior Court of Justice of Andalusia (TSJA), the Court has received a letter accompanied by medical documentation specifying the action plan from now on in the face of the disease, consisting of "pharmacological treatment and exercises rehabilitators".
The First Section of the Provincial Court of Seville recalls in a document to which La Vanguardia has had access that "in an order dated January 13, Griñán's admission to prison was postponed until the aforementioned sessions" of radiotherapy were concluded, for which reason has agreed to transfer the medical documentation provided to the Legal Medicine Institute.
With this new movement of the Court, Griñán sees the end of his freedom closer, since the IML will have to issue a report "as soon as possible on whether the treatment that is prescribed is compatible with imprisonment, for the purposes of resolve on the suspension of the execution that was requested by its representation".
Although the Institute of Legal Medicine ruled in a first statement in January that the side effects of radiotherapy treatment "seem not very compatible with prison dynamics", it remains to be seen what assessment they make now that everything indicates that they will only have to take medication and do rehabilitation, activities that a priori do seem viable to carry out in prison.
Griñán, sentenced to six years for embezzlement of public funds in the case of the ERE, is the only one of the former high officials of the Board sentenced to prison who remains free, after entering the Puerto prison on April 11 III of El Puerto de Santa María (Cádiz) of the former Deputy Minister of Employment Agustín Barberá, to serve his seven-year sentence.
The rest of those convicted of embezzlement had already entered the fraudulent plot in the granting of social and labor aid that was active from 2000 to 2009: the former Minister of Finance Carmen Martínez Aguayo, the former Minister of Innovation Francisco Vallejo, the former Minister of Employment and Development Technological José Antonio Viera, the also former Minister of Employment Antonio Fernández, the former director of the IDEA agency, Miguel Ángel Serrano, and the former Vice Minister of Innovation Jesús María Rodríguez Román.
