The Prosecutor's Office opens the way so that 1-O comes out free in the Court of Auditors to the leaders of the procés

• Courts The Prosecutor's Office of the Court of Accounts reduces by 62% the money that the independentistas must return

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After the criminal pardon, the independence leaders caress in practice another pardon, in this case the economic one.

The Prosecutor's Office of the Court of Auditors has opened the way for the illegal referendum of October 1, 2017 to be free for those responsible by lowering the claim for accounting responsibility to 1.2 million.

This is a much lower figure than the 3.9 million for which bail was required from the leaders of the

and which, being so limited, can be more than covered by the independence collections and the Esquerra Republicana de Catalunya itself, who announced that he would contribute more than two million euros for those accused of the

In the event that the

upholds the

it would not even be necessary for Carles Puigdemont, Oriol Junqueras and the rest of the defendants to attempt to execute the guarantees that the Catalan Generalitat has made available to them.

Junqueras

and other convicts have already received a pardon from the current Government for embezzlement of public funds, among other crimes, but they are awaiting the trial of the Court of Accounts that the former Secretary of Organization of the PSOE, José Luis Ábalos, defined as "stone in the road » on the path of dialogue with the independence movement.

That stone is getting smaller and smaller after the softened demand of the Prosecutor's Office, released in the middle of Holy Week by the body directed by Dolores Delgado, former Minister of Justice of Pedro Sánchez.

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According to this Wednesday's statement, "the amount claimed in this part of the lawsuit [the one referring to 1-O] amounts to 1,219,838.63 euros, while the amount of the provisional settlement was 3,903,294.8."

It refers to the fact that the investigating delegate of the Court,

based on preliminary calculations of the Prosecutor's Office of the Court of Accounts at the time, set 3.9 million in the provisional liquidation act with a preventive seizure of the defendants awaiting sentencing. definitive.

Many things have happened since then.

The prosecutor at the time,

, no longer works as such, because the then general secretary of the PP, Teodoro García Egea, proposed last fall that he leave that position to become a counselor of the Court of Accounts in the quota of his party .

The Government accepted.

That pact gave a majority to the socialist members and Delgado could also appoint a new prosecutor.

The current one,

has departed from Torres' criteria and, for example, has erased from the complaint of the case against Puigdemont and his team nearly one million euros that the independence leaders committed to the private postal company Unipost to organize the vote in the referendum.

The argument is that the expense was not finally executed, but the previous prosecutor defended, in accordance with the jurisprudence of the

, that it was enough to commit public spending illegally to incur accounting liability.

foreign promotion

The cause of 1-O is the one that most worries the independentistas, because the other, that of foreign action and the so-called embassies, they consider more defensible because it forms part of their "ideological freedom" and competences in matters of foreign promotion.

In this other branch of the procés case in the Court of Auditors, the Prosecutor's Office also makes a reduction, "The amount claimed in this part of the lawsuit amounts to 2,209,503.8 euros, while the amount of the provisional settlement was 5,150,711.09».

He bases this strong reduction on, for example, that the independentistas do not have to return money from the trips made in which they disqualified the State or encouraged secession, because it is part of their "ideological freedom."

In total, the Prosecutor's Office proposes a reduction of 62% by leaving the nine million foreseen for 1-O and foreign action at 3.4 million.

His lawsuit, directed against 35 independence supporters, and that of the

(SCC) are the ones that promote the trial in the Court of Auditors, when the

and the Generalitat of Catalonia desisted.

SCC asks for 5.3 million because, as they say, they risk their own assets in the lawsuit and they can't take it anymore.

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