The judge of the Supreme Court Leopoldo Puente has decided to keep the former PSOE Santos Cerdán Secretary in provisional prison. The judge argues that the risk of being able to destroy evidence persists since investigations on their patrimonial situation have not completed. The magistrate points out, however, that the measure will not be extended beyond the period of six computable months from his entry into prison on June 30.
The instructor has rejected the allegations of the defense of the former socialist leader, who requested on September 8 his release with the argument that he is in prison according to “a police suspicion” without other livelihood than the interpretation that the UCO makes of the recordings seized to the exassor Koldo García. The underlying thesis of its defense is that the procedure has been directed against Cerdán for its role in negotiation with Junts.
The judge, however, affirms that there are “consistent signs” against him and gives total relevance to these audios, in which he points out that Cerdán recognizes in a “explicitly” collection of commissions linked to the award of certain public works, as well as their distribution with other investigated. The magistrate also disdains the theory of the supposed “plot or plot” that, in his opinion, has elaborated his defense “without identifiable foundation” and through a “concatenation of speculation.”
In his letter, the defense of Cerdán presented his doubts about the chain of custody of the recordings on which the accusation against his client is supported and denounced that the Civil Guard, in an irregular action, has “displaced” the place where the audios were originally, from the cloud to specific devices. He also requested that the true role that Koldo García has played in his collaboration with the Civil Guard and that they suspect the lawyers, has been hidden through the material expigited by the UCO without control of the magistrate of the case.
In this regard, the magistrate defends that there is no “minimum indication” that evidence has been made against Cerdán deliberately and remembers that these audios were seized in the registration of the ex -asor’s address, which did not voluntarily deliver them “how it would seem to correspond to the role of undercover agent or provocative agent” attributed to him by the defense of Cerdán.
The judge also focuses on the public works referred to in the conversations and points to “an eloquent common denominator”: all of them were awarded to the company Action Construction acting in UTE with others of much less size, without in any of the cases the winner presented the best economic offer.
The Anti -Corruption Prosecutor’s Office, who requested the imprisonment of Cerdán after taking a statement, positioned himself this week in favor of continuing in jail on the grounds that the one who was ‘number three’ of the socialists is charged with “serious corruption behaviors” and that he still has “ability” to “alter and hide evidence and condition witnesses or investigated” in an alleged criminal organization. of public works to different companies in which he attributes a “director role”.
Source: www.eldiario.es
