Within a period of three days from the notification of the Seville Court, registered today, the Andalusian Government must rule on the pardons presented by both the former socialist leader José Antonio Griñán as well as the other seven convicted of embezzlement in the piece policy of the ERE case.
Justice has proceeded in this way at the request of the Prosecutor’s Office, who requested that the autonomous administration, now under the government of the popular Juanma Moreno, be the one to rule on this matter as the only injured party.
Let us remember that the man who was also president of the Andalusian Government was sentenced to six years in prison, although he did not go to prison as did the rest of the senior officials due to suffering from prostate cancer, a disease for which the Institute’s forensic expert Legal Medicine advised against serving his sentence,
The Court of Seville, which processes requests for pardons for those sentenced to prison terms for a crime of embezzlement in the case of the ERE (which meant a hole of almost 700 million euros in the public coffers), gives a period of three days to the lawyer of the Junta de Andalucía to issue his opinion on the pardon requested for Griñán and the remaining former senior officials.
This court is the judicial body in charge of processing the pardons requested after the convictions in the so-called political piece of the ERE, and it does so after the Supreme Court sent a letter last week in which it communicated that it will only process the pardon of the former director General of Labor Juan Márquez.
The high court will only be in charge of processing Márquez’s pardon because, after the Court’s conviction, only the sentence of this exalted official of the Andalusian Government was modified, reducing the sentence initially imposed.
For the rest of the eight convicted, including Griñán, the Seville Court will be in charge of resolving the requested pardons.
