Madrid, Jan 16 (EFE) .- The Spanish Anticorruption Prosecutor asked today 42 and a half years in prison for Luis Barcenas extesorero the ruling Popular Party (PP, center-right) for crimes such as money laundering, bribery, embezzlement and misappropriation improper under the so-called “Gürtel case.”
This is a judicial inquiry into alleged corruption in contracts rigged employers and individuals related to PP in which 41 people listed as defendants.
Among them is the considered network leader, businessman Francisco Correa, for whom the prosecutor asks the highest penalty, 109 years and 10 months.
In the indictment filed today with the National Court, the anti-corruption prosecutor also asked to keep this process the ruling Popular Party and the former Minister of Health Ana Mato as partners for profit benefit of the Gürtel plot.
In the case of PP, the Attorney understands that profited from the profits made by companies Correa and his collaborators in various municipalities and asks 328,440 euros in civil liability.
With regard to the Mato exministra, who resigned in past, Nov. asks 28 468 euros because it believes that benefited from the gifts that the plot Gürtel made her ex-husband, the former mayor of Pozuelo de Alcorcón (center) Jesús Sepúlveda, who is also among the accused.
Besides Barcenas, in this piece are also imputed extesoreros PP Angel Sanchis, for which the prosecutor requests eight years for crimes against the Treasury, forgery and money laundering, and Alvaro Lapuerta, for claiming three years for misappropriation.
After Correa, the prosecution claims the next highest penalty, 85 years and a half, for the considered number two in the frame, the former secretary of organization of the PP in the region of Galicia, Pablo Crespo.
It also calls twenty-four and one month in prison for woman Barcenas, Rosalia Iglesias, while for other local elected officials requesting PP sentences of between fifteen and fifty years in prison.
Barcenas, who was the first manager and then PP treasurer and senator, the judge also investigating whether established a parallel accounting in the PP, with income allegedly contributed by employers as grants and outflows as bonuses leaders, something denied by the aforementioned.
The petition of the Anticorruption Prosecutor issued today puts down the stretch a judicial investigation that began six years ago and sit on the bench at 42 accused by the activities of the plot Gürtel between 1999 and 2005. EFE
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