Justice investigates the alleged illegal awarding of contracts at parties in Madrid municipalities governed by the PP between 2004 and 2013
The judge of the National Court Manuel García Castellón has agreed this Wednesday the opening of oral trial for the former Madrid counselor Francisco Granados in one of the pieces of the Punic case of corruption in which the alleged illegal adjudication of contracts at parties in various municipalities governed by the PP between 2004 and 2013.
The car, to which EFE has had access, will sit Granados on the bench as the main investigator in this plot along with thirteen other defendants, including the former senator David Upright.
For the former Madrid leader, the Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office, as stated in this document, requests six years in prison for two continuous crimes of fraud in the award of contracts for the festivities of five municipalities of Madrid governed by the PP between 2004 and 2013, while for the former senator and who was also a regional deputy and former deputy mayor of Algete, the Public Ministry reduced his request to two years and eight months in jail.
The magistrate also opens an oral trial to eleven other people, six of them former mayors of the PP in the Community: José Carlos Boza and José Miguel Moreno, from Valdemoro; Esteban Parro and Daniel Ortiz, from Móstoles; María Ángeles Herrera, from Ciempozuelos; and Carlos Alberto Estrada, from Moraleja de Enmedio.
For all former mayors, except for Ortiz, the Prosecutor’s Office requests sentences slightly higher than two years in prisona sentence lower than the demand of the popular accusation exercised by the PSOE and the Association of Democratic Lawyers for Europe (Adade).
In the case of Granados, he asks for 38 years in prisonwhile for the former mayor of Valdemoro Boza he requests 27 years and for former senator Erguido and five other former councilors of imputed Madrid municipalities 13 and a half years.
Adade had also requested that the PP sit on the bench as a participant for profit, but the magistrate has rejected it considering that the request is extemporaneous.
The one who will not sit on the bench will be José Luis Huertaadministrator of Waiter Music, now deceased, and who allegedly won the contracts for the patron saint festivities of the municipalities and maintained negotiations with the mayors.