• Erial case: Zaplana's difficult judicial future: he faces a request for between 15 and 20 years in prison
  • The summary. The UCO certifies the looting that he attributes to Zaplana through the agendas of his entire political career

New jug of cold water against the former President of the Generalitat, Eduardo Zaplana . The former Minister of Labor with the PP intended that the case against him for the Erial case be referred to the National Court. A petition that has been dismissed by the Court of Instruction number 8 of Valencia, as it appears from a car to which EL MUNDO has had access. Furthermore, Judge Isabel Rodríguez flatly rejects Zaplana's exculpation, which his lawyers are asking for, and insists: if he continues to be investigated, it is "not because the signs of criminality against him have disappeared after the instruction practiced, but because on the contrary, they last and grow. "

Specifically, what is being investigated in Valencia are the alleged illegal awards of wind power plans and ITVs in exchange for bribes, in a case in which Zaplana is accused of the alleged crimes of laundering, embezzlement and prevarication. In this sense, the judge's latest order makes it clear that "all criminal action begins in the Valencian Community", in addition to the fact that the companies awarded the contracts are "all domiciled in Valencia and Villarreal".

"The company Imison SL and Inversiones Impega SL are also created by those investigated in Valencia," stresses the order, which highlights that "the entire nucleus of initial corporate structures are constituted here." Another thing is that, "obviously, to hide the money obtained illegally, use is made of the so-called 'tax havens' abroad , using or creating companies therein, or 'figureheads' who create the appearance of being them holders of certain financial products, current accounts, companies, etc. "

Therefore, the magistrate admits that there have been acts abroad as the defense of Zaplana maintains to refer the case to Madrid, but "all the initial acts of the crimes investigated, the plotting, the use or creation of companies, contracts, awards, are produced and perpetrated in Valencia and from Valencia ". The judge thus denies the competence of the National Court, along the same lines as the Prosecutor's Office. In his opinion, the arguments of the Zaplana defense are not enough to determine the competence of the National Court, because if so, "a large number of cases of the investigating courts would be referred to the Court, because with globalization, many crimes of all kinds have ramifications abroad. "

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