The magistrate instructing the case against Laura Borràs warns that the investigation pursues "alleged crimes related to an administrative action without political connotations of any kind." In an order issued last Friday, the judge rejects the appeal filed against the prosecution of the leader of Junts and regrets that Borràs links the facts investigated in this case with her "legitimate political option".
Laura Borràs, through her lawyer Gonzalo Boye, presented an incident of recusal to separate the new magistrate who instructs her case after last week the service commission of magistrate Jordi Seguí was exhausted and the case was passed to instruct the magistrate Carlos Ramos, from the civil and criminal court of the TSJC, who already supervised, for example, the case against Quim Torra for not taking down the banner in time in favor of the prisoners. Borràs uses the same argument that the former president used on her day to remove the judge. She alleges that Judge Ramos was chosen in 2004 at the request of the PSC, "a group that has repeatedly requested Borràs' resignation as a result of possible responsibilities arising from this case, which implies a loss of impartiality for the judge."
The magistrate dismisses the challenge considering it "an abuse of law and procedural fraud aimed at removing the judge and delaying the process in order to delay the decision to adopt an eventual opening of the oral trial." The judge relies on the arguments that the TC already used to dismiss the challenge promoted then by Torra, stressing that the initiative was based on "illusory and unreal" reasons.
"A political purpose cannot be attributed to a magistrate as a consequence of a certain appointment system." The Prosecutor's Office presented last week its indictment against Borràs in which it requests a sentence of 6 years in prison and 21 years of disqualification for crimes of prevarication and false documentation for the alleged division of contracts when he presided over the Institució de les Lletres Catalanes.
