The holder of Criminal Court number 4 of Valencia has agreed to begin the trial against the 42 defendants who allegedly rigged the 2011 Levante-Zaragoza party and it will be in his sentence where he makes a decision on the request of the defenses to declare the process void for splitting Javier Tebas's complaint of the violation of his professional secret.

Therefore, the entire trial will be held because the judge understands that this petition for annulment should have been raised during the investigation "if the intention was to curb the progress of the case." In addition, he understands that the president of the League "must clarify as a witness what the source was and be able to determine if the contamination of the evidence is decisive."

The magistrate clarifies that making a decision now means "advancing assessments" and requires "a thorough and detailed study would require suspending the trial, which could affect the right to a process without undue delay."

Another of the requests of the defenses was that the statistical report of the League was not admitted, dismissed by the judge. It will be part of the process, although its authors cannot declare as experts.

Regarding the obligation of the 42 defendants to be present at the trial sessions, the judge authorized the absence of the defendants "except in interrogations, the possible requests that are requested, the reading of conclusions and the right to last word".

However, the summons for the statements will be made in the order in which the accusation is written and will be known at the end of each meeting, which has caused the protests of the defendants who play and reside abroad, for the impossibility of attending to Valencia in 24 hours.

The judge's response was that the court would be sensitive in these cases, but refused to set a calendar.

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