Santos Cerdán’s lawyer and sets a new date in July. The defense of the former PSOE organization secretary alleges “the volume and complexity” of the cause that has been instructed since last November in the high court, in which the alleged plot of corruption that had its epicenter in the Ministry of Transport during the stage of José Luis Ábalos is investigated. If magistrate Leopoldo Puente insists on maintaining the date of the appearance, Cerdán will accept his right not to declare, says the lawyer in a letter to which the country has had access.
The former socialist leader appeared on Friday in the open case in the high court, after the instructor, Leoldo Puente, warned of the existence of “consistent” indications of his involvement in the plot for which Ábalos, his former advisor, Koldo García, and the businessman and commissioner Víctor de Aldama are also investigated. For this procedure, Cerdán was represented by the lawyer Gonzalo Martínez Fresneda, who represents the PSOE in the case opened by the Koldo case At the National Court, but the lawyer abandoned the defense of the former socialist leader when he resigned from the minutes and Cerdán has put himself in the hands of the lawyer Benet Salellas.
The new lawyer, in his first letter registered in the Supreme Court, claims a postponement of the Person Declaration given “the volume and complexity of the cause, the diversity of facts that are imputed, the plurality of crimes and intervenings as well as the public and social relevance of the matter.” “This part of this request is so convinced that in the case that was denied, we already anticipate that it would lead to the decision to welcome us to not declare in the appointment of June 25 and simultaneously re -request a new statement,” says the lawyer.
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