The public prosecutor’s office has reduced the request for disqualification for the former mayor of Sabadell Manuel Bustos from 2 years to 7 months for the case of alleged bribes by former PP councilor Jordi Soriano to businessmen in the city.
This is piece 33 of the Mercurio case, which also places the former head of the Municipal Police, Josep Miquel Duran, and the former head of Urban Planning Manuel Somoza on the dock.
At the end of the trial, the prosecutor highlighted that the defendants did not comply with their duty to prosecute the crime, known through a memory stick that would contain a sound file in which Soriano’s pressure on businessmen for having deals would be recounted. favor in exchange for money.
The request for sentence reduction also applies to the other two defendants.
