The trial for the Erial case, in which Eduardo Zaplana is the main defendant, has been suspended due to the serious illness of the lawyer of the former minister and former Valencian president. The court of the Audiencia of Valencia has thus accepted the request for a postponement pending the recovery of a lawyer who was admitted to the emergency room last week due to a heart disease. The former president points out at the exit of the City of Justice, asked if he maintains his innocence, he answered “absolutely.”
Eduardo Zaplana faces a request for a sentence from the prosecutor of 19 years in prison. He is accused of having collected and laundered bribes (with purchases of apartments, plots or vehicles) worth more than 20 million euros in ITV and wind farm awards when he was president, in 1997.
He is suspected of having committed the crimes of criminal organization, money laundering, bribery, prevarication and document falsification. Along with the former president, in addition to José Luis Olivas, there will be close collaborators such as Joaquín Barceló (whom they ask for 8 years), Francisco Grau (8), Juan Francisco García (14) or Mitsouko Henríquez (8). Zaplana, who suffers from leukemia, has always defended his innocence.
(((There will be an extension)))
