• Justice: Inaki Urdangarin asks for his first seven-day exit permit

The Board of Treatment of the prison of Brieva (Ávila) has authorized this Thursday that Iñaki Urdangarin enjoys during the seven-day Christmas holidays in his first ordinary permit, as prison sources have confirmed to Europa Press. The Penitentiary Surveillance judge now has to ratify this favorable response from the prison.

Infanta Cristina's husband has been in prison for 17 months and last week served a quarter of his sentence to five years and ten months for the 'Nóos case'. As with any other inmate classified in second grade, Urdangarin can request ordinary permits to leave the prison with a maximum of 36 days a year - 18 days per semester -, although without being able to add more than one week consecutively.

The procedure establishes that the judge of Penitentiary Surveillance is the one who has the last word on the granting of this type of permit, whether there is disagreement about the decision taken by both the prisoner and the Prosecutor.

In September, the judge granted Urdangarin a permit to volunteer for a religious home in Pozuelo (Madrid), in accordance with article 117 of the Penitentiary Regime on "regimental measures for the execution of specialized programs for second-degree convicts" , as is the case of the brother-in-law of the King. He authorized him to go out twice a week and a maximum of eight hours a day. The decision was supported by the Provincial Court of Avila by rejecting the appeal of the Prosecutor.

In this way, it was September 19 when Urdangarin first left the Brieva module that he voluntarily chose after being convicted of crimes of continued prevarication and embezzlement (both in competition), influence peddling, Administration fraud and two tax crimes Infanta's husband has since been in a module where there are no other prisoners, since Ávila's is a women's prison. PREPARATION FOR LIFE IN FREEDOM

The ordinary permits to which the brother-in-law of the King can now be accepted are regulated in article 154 of the Prison Regime. According to the norm, permits can be granted, "previous mandatory report of the Technical Team", for the ordinary departure "of up to seven days in preparation for life in freedom".

These permits are up to a total of 36 days for those classified in second grade or up to 48 days for those in third grade, "provided they have extinguished the fourth part of the sentence or convictions and do not observe misconduct."

The maximum annual limits of 36 and 48 days of permits are distributed, according to the Penitentiary Regulation, "as a general rule in the two natural semesters of each year". For the inmate classified in second grade, such as Urdangarin today, he could have up to 18 days in total in one semester - there would be 24 days for prisoners in third grade.

"Within the indicated limits," the rule adds, "the weekend departures of the open regime or the scheduled departures that are regulated in Article 114 of these Regulations, or extraordinary permits, will not be counted."

Prior to his imprisonment in June 2018, the Criminal Chamber of the Supreme Court reduced the sentence to the exduque of Palma by five months, from six years and three months of the Provincial Court of Palma de Mallorca to the final sentence five years and ten months for various crimes related to the activity of the Nóos Institute. The Prosecutor's Office had requested an increase in the sentence of up to ten years.

Once they enter prison, inmates have a time limit of two months to be classified from the moment the sentence is notified in prisons. Then the grade classification is automatically re-studied every six months at the most. Urdangarin's last revision was last July, remaining in second grade. Its progression to the third degree, in principle, could be raised after half of the sentence, this is from the second quarter of 2021.

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