• ERE case Six former senior officials of the Board are already in prison

Eleven days after he ordered it, the First Section of the

Provincial Court of Seville

already has in its possession the medical report on the prostate cancer suffered by José Antonio Griñán and which will be used to decide whether the former president of the Junta de Andalucía will Add to the other six former senior socialist officials who are already in prison serving the sentence of the ERE or if, on the contrary, he is released.

At least for the moment.

Just a few hours after Griñán submitted to the forensic examination in charge of evaluating his state of health, the magistrates of the First Section received the document, a detailed evaluation of the state of health of the former president based on the medical history provided by the patient himself and in the review to which he was submitted at the headquarters of the

Institute of Legal Medicine of Seville

(IML).

Sources close to the case confirmed to EL MUNDO that the report requested by the Court -with the details requested by the Anti-

Corruption Prosecutor

's Office- has already been sent, although its content has not been disclosed.

The prosecutors had expressly requested that the coroner rule on whether Griñán suffers from a "very serious illness with incurable conditions" and, if applicable, whether he can undergo the corresponding treatment while serving the six-year prison sentence that has been imposed on him.

The result of the forensic examination will now be sent to both the Public Ministry and the private prosecution, which is exercised by the Popular Party, so that they can rule on it.

Next, as explained by sources from

the Superior Court of Justice of Andalusia (TSJA)

, the Hearing will rule on the petition presented, in extremis, by the former president's lawyer to suspend his imprisonment.

The defense lawyer alleged in his request a serious illness that had occurred, specifically a "high risk" cancer for which, he assured, the former president of the Board cannot be treated in prison.

He needs, he added in his request, hospital treatment to stop his expansion.

The former president and his family had official confirmation of the diagnosis in mid-December and provided a report that would prove not only the disease but its extraordinary severity.

That document has been in Griñán's possession since the day before the judicial request for him to enter prison, although he did not present it until after that period.

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