• Andalusia The Court of Seville refuses to postpone Griñán's entry into prison and gives him 10 days for his voluntary entry

The

Supreme Court

has also closed the door to a suspension of the sentences of the ERE while the nullity incident raised by the defenses of both the former president of the Junta José Antonio Griñán and the other (seven) former senior officials of the

Board

that they should go to prison in the coming weeks.

In a letter dated yesterday, November 15, the first section of the

Second Chamber

of the Supreme Court clarifies that "the incident of annulment of actions does not suspend the execution of the sentence, and should be requested before the body responsible for its execution".

This last option has also been exhausted by the defendants, since the

Court of Seville

informed them yesterday that it sees no legal grounds for postponing the execution of the sentences, neither for the incident of annulment, nor for the appeals announced before the

Constitutional Court

nor for the pardons requested from the Government and which are pending resolution.

The Court has given ten days to those convicted to go to prison once its last resolution denying the suspension of sentences is final.

As

EL MUNDO

has been reporting , the court considers that the seriousness of the sentences of eight of the nine sentenced to prison, including José Antonio Griñán, prevents the postponement from being agreed.

All of them must serve between six and seven years in prison.

Only the former Director General of Employment,

Juan Márquez

, has a lesser sentence, three years, and only he has been granted a one-year suspension of his sentence.

"Absolute Lack of Control"

The Court recalls that "the suspension of the execution of the custodial sentence in the event of a request for pardon is justified by the danger that when grace is positively granted, it will be impossible to put into practice because it has already been extinguished. the penalty for complying with it".

And, this, the court concludes, would not be the case of eight of those sentenced to prison for the ERE case.

Regarding the nullity incident, the Seville Court had also ruled out that it was sufficient cause to justify the postponement.

The defenses of the defendants in the ERE case filed this appeal due to the anomaly that, in their opinion, meant that the Supreme Court advanced its ruling last July, but did not disclose the full content of the sentence until last month. September, which would have caused the defenselessness of the defendants during this period of time, since they did not know the reasons why the sentences had been ratified.


The Supreme Court ratified, with a sentence notified last September, the sentence of six years in prison for José Antonio Griñán, as well as the disqualification from public office for nine years for Manuel Chaves.

He considers that both knew and consented to the "absolute lack of control" of the ERE fraud through which 679 million euros were diverted from public coffers for a decade.

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