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The Ministry of the Interior must decide within a maximum period of two months whether to approve the progression to the third degree of Iñaki Urdangarin. The department of Fernando Grande-Marlaska must adopt this decision after the Treatment Board of the Brieva prison , in Ávila , where Felipe VI's brother-in-law is serving his sentence, approved the granting of the third degree, as Europa Press announced .

It is the General Secretariat of Penitentiary Institutions, under the Ministry of the Interior, which must ratify this decision. The Treatment Board of the Avila prison adopted this decision at a meeting last week to study the revision of the degree of the husband of Infanta Cristina, in which it was agreed to request the third degree by a tight result of four votes in favor and three against.

This measure is not final, since it will be the General Secretariat of Penitentiary Institutions that must ratify this measure or not. For this, it has a period of two months to pronounce.

The Brieva prison was due to review this July the Urdangarin life regime, which was classified in the second degree since he voluntarily entered this women's prison two years ago to serve the sentence of five years and 10 months imposed on him by the Supreme Court for corruption in the Nóos case.

Scheduled departures

The third prison grade is the previous step to probation . Until now, the Brieva Treatment Board had rejected Urdangarin's grade progression, which in this case would have authorization to go to the prison only to sleep from Monday to Thursday, although it is expected that it would be in another center close to the address that he sets - until Now, Vitoria-, because the Ávila prison does not have an open section.

At the moment, the King's brother-in-law is enjoying scheduled departures since September to volunteer under article 117 of the Prison Regulations and ordinary exit permits. These permits are 36 days a year for prisoners classified in the second degree or up to 48 days for those in the third degree or semi-freedom regime.

The situation in Brieva of the husband of the Infanta Cristina, who established her residence in Vitoria for previous outings, was the object of the reproach of the Penitentiary Surveillance Judge Number 1 of Valladolid, Florencio de Marcos Madruga , who justified new weekend permits in application of article 100.2. He justified it in "compensation" for the "inaction" of Penitentiary Institutions, since, according to this magistrate, the inmate was isolated as was done in the eighteenth century.

Last April 1, in the midst of a health crisis due to the Covid-19 pandemic, the Provincial Court of Palma reversed -a previous appeal from the Prosecutor's Office- the decision of the Valladolid Penitentiary Surveillance Court to make the second degree or ordinary regime more flexible.

Urdangarin wanted to take advantage of article 100.2, the same one enjoyed by prisoners convicted of the independence process , to have additional exit permits two weekends a month.

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