The Criminal Court number 1 of Vitoria-Gasteiz has sentenced archaeologist Eliseo Gil to two years and three months in prison for a continued crime of fraud and a continued crime of documentary falsehood in the case of false findings in the Iruña site. -Veleia (Álava).

The sentence, which significantly lowers the penalties requested by the prosecution due to "delays" in the process, also condemns Ruben Cerdán, the alleged nuclear physicist who prepared the reports that endorsed the alleged authenticity of the findings, to one year and three months in prison for a continued crime of fraud, in competition with a crime of documentary falsehood.

The court ruling states that between the months of July 2005 and June 2006, Eliseo Gil "either by himself [or by third parties], made incisions to provide various inscriptions on 36 authentic late-Roman archaeological pieces of pottery "that had been unearthed at the site.

The manipulation of the unearthed pieces, according to the court, was carried out "with the intention of endowing the findings of the site with a pretended historical-cultural-religious value that they did not have", with which the authentic pieces "were irreversibly damaged " The value of the 36 damaged archaeological pieces has been calculated at a minimum of two euros per unit, bringing the total amount of damage to 72 euros.

The Criminal Court number 1 of Vitoria stresses in its ruling that Gil, director of the works at the site of Iruña-Veleia at the time of the events, arranged with Cerdán to confer the archaeological pieces found -which allegedly contained inscriptions revolutionary on the origin of Basque or Christianity - an authenticity "that they did not have".

"ILLICIT PROFIT ENCOURAGEMENT"

The sentence emphasizes that Gil, "knowing the falsity" of the inscriptions or graphites that the unearthed pieces presented, arranged with Cerdán "to carry out some report that could corroborate the appearance of authenticity" of said inscriptions.

The court considers the "lack of veracity" of the three reports proven , which were prepared without having performed the nuclear spectroscopy analyzes required to determine the authenticity of the graphites. In addition, it notes that despite knowing the falsity of these reports, Gil and Cerdán, "moved by the intention of obtaining an illicit profit ", billed two of them to the Diputación de Álava for just over 12,000 euros.

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