The former presidents of the Government Felipe González and José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero will support with their signature the petition that the relatives of José Griñán are going to present before the Justice to request his pardon, after the Supreme Court ratified his sentence last month in the case of the ARE, as El Confidencial has advanced.
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According to the digital information, Griñán’s wife, María Teresa Caravaca, and her son Manuel will register the petition as soon as the full sentence of the High Court is known, which confirmed for the former Andalusian president a sentence of six years in prison and disqualification special for embezzlement and prevarication in that plot.
That petition will be accompanied by an annex of signatures that will be headed, according to the newspaper, by both González and Zapatero, and which will include the signatures of various ministers of their respective governments. Sources close to former President Zapatero have confirmed to elDiario.es that he “supports the request for pardon” and that he will sign it “when” the appropriate procedural moment arrives.
The Supreme confirmed in a decision made public on July 26 the convictions of the two former presidents of the Junta de Andalucía José Antonio Griñán and Manuel Chaves for their participation in the case of the ERE of that autonomous community. In the case of Chaves, the judges of the criminal court confirmed his sentence of nine years of disqualification and in Griñán’s case of six years in prison, which means his entry into prison.
The court thus upheld three appeals and partially one more and dismissed all the others, including those of Chaves and Griñán. For this reason, the Supreme Court has agreed to annul the sentence in the first instance and draft a new one that will be known shortly, when the dissenting opinion is drafted.
In 2019, the Court of Seville declared proven that in the 1990s the Junta de Andalucía and its Ministry of Employment launched a system of public money aid for companies that hired workers close to retirement age and also to companies in crisis.
A system that was extended between 2000 and 2009 and that went ahead despite multiple objections, among others, from the Intervention of the Junta de Andalucía. These millions of euros were channeled irregularly through the Andalusian Development Institute (IFA) using equally irregular budgetary modifications and avoiding most of the controls and filters of the administration to send the money as quickly as possible to companies and workers.
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