“We deducted expenses for gifts to PP authorities”

Pablo Crespo, Francisco CorreaGürtel’s top collaborator, has delivered a confession letter before the last trial of the corrupt plot in which he explains his functions within the tax fraud and money laundering structure. In one of the passages of his writing, to which elDiario.es has had access, Crespo includes “the deduction of expenses that were really gifts or prodigalities in favor of certain authorities or officials of the Popular Party.”

Next Monday the final trial of the Gürtel plot begins. 26 defendants will sit in the dock. It has been five years since Judge José de la Mata ordered the opening of oral proceedings for this last piece of the macro case. Within its framework, the structure to defraud the Treasury and launder money from corruption is investigated.

The prison request for Crespo is identical to that made by the Prosecutor’s Office for Correa, a total of 77 years, although neither of the two is currently in prison because their collaboration began in Gürtel’s first trial and they have already met the requirements for the third degree. Pablo Crespo, who was Secretary of Organization of the Galician PP, spent nine years in prison.

The trial will try to clarify the aforementioned money laundering plot, launched by Luis de Miguel and later taken up by Ramón Blanco Balín, who has also confessed this week to his crimes within a collaboration agreement with the justice system.

Now, Pablo Crespo says: “As consideration in relation to my participation in various businesses with Mr. Correa, collection of commissions for awarding works and to channel the amounts received in an opaque manner to the treasury, I established several companies in Panama.” Crespo recognizes “income from the illicit favoring of public works awards” or “distribution of commissions” for the same concept.

“I wish to express my sincere regret for the actions taken in the events that gave rise to this procedure and also for those for which I have already been convicted by a final sentence, relating to other separate pieces derived from the same previous proceedings,” adds Crespo.

And he concludes: “I am fully aware and have assumed, for a long time, the economic damage caused by the crimes committed, which also represented a serious attack against the basic civic values ​​of society and against my own.”