The main leader of the Gürtel plot, Francisco Correa, has delivered the confession that was pending to complete his collaboration with justice, corresponding to the only piece that remains to be judged from the great corruption plot around the Popular Party. This is the piece of money laundering in which Correa faces a request from the 77 -year prison prosecution.
A five years ago that Judge José de la Mata issued the opening of oral trial for this last piece of the macro causes. Within the framework of the same, the structure to defraud to the Treasury and bleaches the money from corruption is investigated. They will accompany Correa on the bench their maximum collaborator, Pablo Crespo, and the two fiscal architects of the group, Luis de Miguel and Ramón Blanco Balín.
“The Crespo and Blanco Balín were the ones who dealt with my corporate, economic and fiscal affairs in general, while I was usually out of Spain. In fact, there are many names of companies constituted through Crespo, Blanco Balín and Agramunt, whose name I do not remember, but which are those that consist of the accusation brief,” says Correa in the brief, to which he has had access eldiario.es.
Francisco Correa recovers central aspects of the plot, such as the participation in the framework of two prosecutors operating in Switzerland who integrated Correa’s money in the same account in which Juan Carlos I had funds. This is Arturo Fasana and Dante Canonón, “who knew perfectly the illicit origin” of his “capital abroad” and that were presented by Ramón Blanco Balín. The fact of sharing has King Emeritus in Switzerland was already the subject of previous belt confessions.
Blanco Balín, an entrepreneur who was Vice President of Repsol, was required by Correa to regularize his fiscal situation in Spain. “Blanco Balín treated me contemptuously and told me that I was totally protected in the sunny account, where, according to him, there were people of maximum relevance in Spain,” says Correa.
And add: “[Blanco Balín] He told me that if Judge Garzón at some point summoned him to declare, he, as the administrator of the companies, would express that everything was of foreign investors and prevented me from regularizing, which now regrets. ”
Francisco Correa has been sentenced in all the pieces judged of the Gürtel case but is in third grade penitentiary, in freedom, since 2023 when he won an appeal at the National Court. The Specialized Court set the maximum of prison compliance with the Gürtel leader, which gave it an option to get out of probation. To stay in that situation, Correa had to continue collaborating with justice.
Source: www.eldiario.es
