After the Supreme Court has estimated its appeal against the sentence of seven years of disqualification to hold public office imposed by the Provincial Court of Pontevedra. The five high court judges consider the construction of a soccer field in Moraña does not constitute a crime of prevarication. The judgment of the Pontevedra Court based on the sentence of the then president of the Diputación de Pontevedra and the Popular Party in the Province to prevail “by voting in favor of the agreement” to grant the subsidy “knowing that it was [algo] Illegal and arbitrary because it responded to an artifice to, mocking the barriers of the regulations, satisfy the claims of the contractor, infringing the duty of transparency and not protecting the rights of the administration. ”
before the five magistrates of the Supreme Court the validity of the conviction. “The whole file is prevaricator. They seek and devise a system of common alternative agreement outside the procedure to carry out their strict will. Those who intervene, without their collaboration, would not have been possible to pay those amounts. This implies the crime of prevarication established in article 404 of the Criminal Code, ”said the prosecutor.
The argument of the lawyer of Louzán, Mónica Godoy, to infer of prevarication was based on the fact that both the subsidy and public procure new subsidy or the application of a direct contract ”. The lawyer admitted that “the proven facts are not attacked”, but the interpretation of the behavior, “that cannot integrate the crime of prevarication.”
The Supreme decision is a relief for the damaged reputational image of the Federation, which would have had to digest a fourth president suspended by irregular practices after the disqualifications of Ángel María Villar, Luis Rubiales and Pedro Rocha, the predecessors of the Galician in office .
Louzán was elected president on December 16 with the vote in favor of 90 assembly members, who assumed the risk that the Supreme Ratify the conviction regardless of the consequences it had for an institution gathed with the scandals that have surrounded it in recent years. This Thursday morning, in statements to TVE, Alegría stressed: “I have to admit that the image that has been transmitted from the Football Federation out has not, of course, the most positive and the most constructive. In fact, if we look back, the last presidents of the Football Federation have all ended by judicial means. I think the fans do not deserve this as a visible face of football in our country. ”
