The judge of the National Court Santiago Pedraz has agreed to open a trial against Granada CF and its former president Quique Pina for alleged fraud against the Treasury between 2013 and 2015, and has imposed million-dollar bail on them to face possible financial liabilities that may arise. of the cause.
In his order opening the trial, dated January 12, the magistrate requires the five defendants to provide a bond of 9.4 million euros on a joint and several basis, and in turn requests other bonds on an individual basis, which in the case of the club amounts to 35,866,666 euros.
With this decision, Pedraz leaves the club, the former player, businessman and player’s agent Quique Pina and three other defendants in the case in which they have been investigated for various crimes against the Treasury, one step away from the bench.
The other three investigated against whom the car is directed are the Italian businessman and former owner of the club Gino Pozzo; Raffaele de la Riva, manager of the investment company Fifteen Securisation SARL; and the former advisor of Granada CF Jordi Trilles.
The magistrate has opened a trial against Pina and the other three investigated as alleged perpetrators of an aggravated crime against the Treasury related to Corporate Tax for the years 2013, 2014 and 2015, in relation to “fraud exceeding 600,000 euros.”
In the case of Granada CF, Sociedad Anónima Deportiva, it decrees the opening of a trial for the alleged “commission of three aggravated crimes against the Public Treasury committed by a legal entity” related to the same tax and the same years.
The Prosecutor’s Office, as stated by the judge in his order, in this case requests the National Court to sentence Granada CF Sociedad Anónima Deportiva “as a criminally responsible legal entity” to a fine of 26.9 million euros; while for the rest of the accused he requests 12 years in prison.
For its part, the State Attorney’s Office requests sentences of between 3 and 4 years in prison for each of the crimes against the Treasury of which they are accused, and in the case of Granada CF, requests quadruple of the defrauded fee. for each crime, as well as “the loss of the possibility of obtaining public subsidies and aid or of enjoying tax or Social Security benefits or incentives” for 4 years.
Quique Pina was arrested in 2018 by order of the National Court within the framework of Operation Libero and spent 17 days in preventive detention until he was released with precautionary measures.
