Juan Francisco Trujillo, known as the 'coca driver' who worked for Francisco Javier Guerrero, former director general of Labor, today learned of the decision of the Seville Court on the role he played in the fraudulent scheme of the ERE. The court, as this newspaper has learned, considers him guilty of the crimes of prevarication, embezzlement of public funds and falsification of an official document in a separate piece of the ERE case for the aid granted by the Junta de Andalucía to three commercial companies in the that he was a partner and administrator and for the “fraudulent” underwriting of insurance policies in favor of his own mother.
For this reason, and after the trial was held in January, the Court sentenced him to four years and nine months in prison in a ruling where it was considered proven that the accused “allocated part of the funds received from the subsidies to the payment of necessities.” individuals” of the former general director of Labor Francisco Javier Guerrero such as “consumptions in restaurants and leisure establishments, and supply of narcotics (cocaine),” the TSJA has reported.
As detailed by the Court, the figure of the total damage caused by the award of the three subsidies is 1,350,000 euros, and 125,028.01 euros for the payment of the policy taken out in the name of Trujillo's mother, amount for which it must compensate the Board, as established in the ruling against which an appeal may be filed before the Supreme Court.
In the sentence notified this Tuesday to the parties, the First Section condemns Juan Francisco T.B. as "a necessary collaborator in a continued crime of prevarication in medial competition with a continued crime of embezzlement, as 'extraneus' and with the highly qualified mitigating circumstance of undue delays and the analogical mitigating circumstance of confession."
For the aid worth 1,350,000 euros that his companies received, he is imposed four years and three months of special disqualification for employment or public office for the crime of prevarication and three years of prison and seven and a half years of absolute disqualification for the crime of embezzlement.
In relation to the fraudulent underwriting of insurance policies in favor of his mother, the court sentences him to three months in prison and to pay a fine of 540 euros for the crime of falsification; three years and six months of special disqualification for employment or public office for the crime of prevarication, and one and a half years in prison and three years of absolute disqualification for the crime of embezzlement.
On the contrary, it acquits him of the crime of influence peddling because “there was no moral pressure or influence from Juan Francisco T. on Guerrero that could have been supported by the special relationship of trust that both maintained as a result of Juan's continued service. Francisco T. functions as driver,” the magistrates argue.
