“Not guilty of bribery.” The verdict of the Popular Court who judged since Monday to the former president of the Diputación de Castellón and the provincial PP, and to the Expile of motorcycles Álex Debón, for the alleged bites in Has exculpated both by majority of votes: seven in favor and two against, of having received and delivered, respectively, “gifts” as a counterpart to said advertising contracts. After reading the verdict by the popular jury, which Fabra has heard impassive, in front of the sobs of the Expile, the magistrate has issued an acquittal sentence for both of voice.
“I am very happy, I want to thank my legal team because the skin has been left; the jury for his work and the judicial estate. The sentence is clear: acquitted,” said the former leader of the provincial PP at his exit from the Court of Castellón. “In the end I have always trusted justice and I have moved to hear the verdict. We were right, we were not guilty of anything that were accused of us,” said Álex Debón.
The defenses of the two defendants who, even with the crossing of adjectives, showing the tense current relationship between those who were friends – for not returning the money to his represented, whom he described as “victim” in this cause -, they have remained firm in a single version: that the transfer of 360,000 euros made in five remittances by the athlete to a bank account of the ex -president was The Prosecutor’s Office believes.
Fabra said he requested the money for his bad fiscal situation and before the seizure of his heritage. According to Debón, the loan was claimed by the former PP leader to face the costs of his defense “and avoid jail” after being charged with tax fraud. The lawyers of both have argued that if it had been a ‘bite’ the money would have charged “in cash and in hand” and have shielded that Carlos Fabra had no authority on the sponsorship contracts in Aerocas, the public manager of the airport and that he presided. He was “a advisor” more, “not like the godfather” that had everyone “in a fist,” said the lawyer of the former president of the Diputación.
However, and according to the Prosecutor’s Office, that amount would have been paid to the plundering as a counterpart for 3.6 million to advertise the Castellón airport that debon received from Aerocas to promote the infrastructure in equipment, competitions and events.
Both prosecution and the defense of the Generalitat representing Aerocas, have influenced throughout the trial, and also in their final reports, that the two defendants “disguised loan” is “bite” when they were “caught” by the Treasury – in allusion to the inspection of the Tax Agency to Debón that unleashed everything – and that the credit “is not sustained”, among other questions, because the contract was signed once the contract was signed once the contract was signed, because the contract was signed once the contract was signed. The first payments.
The Public Ministry requested for them three years and three months in prison and the payment of a fine of 6,480 euros, in addition to the special disqualification for employment or public office for five years for Carlos Fabra.
Towards three thirty on Thursday the Provincial Court of Castellón has summoned the parties to know the declaration issued by the court and, as it did in the opening of the trial, Carlos Fabra, with much more informal appearance than in the previous days, has been the first to arrive, again with his daughter, the former PP senator Andrea Fabra. Reading has been made public a few minutes before five in the afternoon.
The case judged this week on the sponsorships of Aerocas is the second that he feels on the bench of the defendants to Carlos Fabra, after the trial for fiscal fraud that took him to prison in 2014. They share the same delay in the instruction: ten years the first and nine years the second.
It will not be the last step through the bench for Carlos Fabra, which will turn 80 years in August. The ex -president of the PP has another open cause that investigates the family and business plot, which appears the president of Villarreal, Fernando Roig, who contributed to the concealment of heritage by the expolaitic to prevent the execution of the sentence for fiscal fraud for which he was finally sentenced in 2013 to four years in prison and the payment of a fine of 1.4 million euros.
Fabra entered prison in 2014 and turned three quarters of the penalty. In April 2016, less than a year and a half after his penitentiary income, he obtained third grade and went to the Victoria Kent center, which he only went to sleep from Monday to Thursday. In the spring of 2017 he achieved probation.
Since then, the one who was a strong man of the PP in Castellón remains away from political life. A background that broke two weeks ago, when he wrapped the former Valencian president between 2003 and 2011, Francisco Camps, during the event held in the Veles E Vents de València building to present his project to lead the PPCV.
Camps gathered 1,600 militants and supporters, among which, in addition to Carlos Fabra, there were other expailed by corruption such as Sonia Castedo – in front of the Mayor’s Office of Alicante between 2008 and 2014, when he resigned after his imputation in the Brugal case – or Alfonso Rus, former president of the Diputación de la Valencia and the PP of this province, sentenced to prison for the case.
