"This plot is the parasitization of the Valencian administration through a patient zero who is Francisco Camps." The prosecutor Concepción Nicolás said it this morning in reading her final qualification in the trial that is being followed in the National Court against the former Valencian president. "This is a plot that managed to establish an opaque system outside the Valencian administration," she added. And she has accused him of influencing a subordinate to hire the network in an "absolutely arbitrary" way.
Anti-Corruption requested two and a half years in prison and ten years of disqualification for the former president of the Valencian PP for crimes of fraud and prevarication, although in the last session of the Anti-Corruption trial it reduced its accusation against him. After listening to the accused, witnesses and experts, the Prosecutor's Office decided to remove the crime of fraud from the former president of the Generalitat Valenciana and request for him one year in prison, six years of disqualification and a fine of 250,000 euros for influence peddling in an ideal contest with prevarication.
The trial of this branch of the macro-cause - the last judicial aspect of the case that the former president has open - focuses on alleged irregularities in public awards to the company Orange Market in the Valencian Community between 2004 and 2009.
The prosecutor's attention has been drawn to Camps' "intensity" when it comes to denying his relationship with the businessman Álvaro Pérez, El Bigotes, when he already recognized her in the so-called suit trial, in 2012, and has considered that perhaps should be assessed as a "contraindication".
This businessman had "access" to high public officials, he had dinner with Camps, he invited him to the baptism of his son, circumstances, the prosecutor said, that suggest that they had a "closeness, proximity", a "relationship" that, underlined, "constitutes influence peddling."
"All this proximity, this abuse of the relationship was what made it possible for Álvaro Pérez, introduced by Francisco Camps, to hire and have access to the different departments and which explains a good part of the beginning of the hiring that we have here," said the prosecutor, who added that Camps "intervened to undo possible obstacles."
The prosecutor, who has criticized the attempt of some witnesses to create a "post-truth", has placed Orange Market as the "head company" of the Generalitat, and has indicated that when it settled in Valencia, there came a time when it He was "naturally hiring" El Bigotes to "ingratiate the president."
In addition to Camps, whom the accusations attribute to having given instructions to award a contract to a company in the Gürtel plot in 2009, three of his former advisors (Alicia de Miguel, Manuel Cervera and Luis Rosado) and former senior officials also sit on the bench. positions such as former regional deputy David Serra.
The Prosecutor's Office wants the court to consider the highly qualified extenuating circumstances of confession for the dozen defendants who acknowledged the facts, among whom are those considered three ringleaders of Gürtel - Francisco Correa, Pablo Crespo and Álvaro Pérez, El Bigotes - who already comply high sentences. Among those ten defendants who reached an agreement with the Prosecutor's Office also include former senior officials of the Generalitat such as Silvia Caballer, Vicente Farnós, Enrique Navarro or Enrique Bort.
(((There will be an extension)))
