A DOCTOR has advised the Seville Excessive Courtroom that former Andalusian president José Antonio Griñán mustn’t go to jail as a result of prostate most cancers that he’s struggling. 

The disgraced Socialist Get together (PSOE) politician was convicted by Spain’s Supreme Courtroom to six years in jail for his position within the so-called ‘ERE’ corruption scandal, which noticed virtually €1 billion disappear from the general public coffers between the years of 2001 and 2009. 

Griñán was sentenced together with seven former PSOE colleagues for his or her position in a scheme that distributed funds to pals and family somewhat than their supposed vacation spot, which was to assist bancrupt firms let go of workers – a scheme recognized in Spanish as an ERE. 

In mid-November Griñán was given 10 days to enter jail, however by late December he had nonetheless not handed himself over. 

On December 23, a decide ordered him to take a medical after his defence lawyer claimed his consumer was affected by prostate most cancers and that his therapy ‘couldn’t be carried out in a penitentiary centre’. 

The report that the forensic doctor has simply handed over to the Seville courtroom argues that secondary results of hormonal therapy and radiotherapy that Griñán wants are ‘incompatible’ with ‘the dynamics of a jail’. 

The previous politician is but to start out therapy, nonetheless. 

Unlikely to go to jail

In accordance with press reviews, it’s now seemingly that the courtroom will enable Griñán to be handled for his most cancers from his residence and won’t have to enter jail. 

The corruption prosecutor and personal prosecution within the case will now have an opportunity to answer the physician’s report, and a ultimate choice will seemingly be made by the courtroom subsequent week.

Carmen Martínez Aguayo, the previous financial system chief within the Andalusian regional authorities, was additionally sentenced to 6 years in jail for misuse of public funds. She entered jail on December 29, changing into the primary of the convicted politicians within the case to take action. 

Regardless of the deadline for the convicted politicians to enter jail expiring on December 31, a number of of their legal professionals interpreted the ultimate date as barely in a while the premise that January 1 was a vacation. 

By January 2, convicted former regional ministers Antonio Fernández, José Antonio Viera and Francisco Vallejo had handed themselves in. 

In addition to Griñán, former employment chief Agustín Barberá is but to enter jail. He’s additionally claiming that he has a severe sickness that forestalls him from doing so.

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