They deny that the defendants in the Alquería case in Valencia testify at the end of the trial

The first section of the Provincial Court of Valencia has denied this Monday that the defendants in the Alquería case testify at the end of the trial, as their lawyers had requested. The Anti-Corruption Prosecutor had already opposed that request that had been made, among the 14 defendants, by the former president of the Valencia Provincial Council with the PSPV and current mayor of Ontinyent for La Vall ens Uneix, Jorge Rodríguez. the court has rejected the acquittal of its defendants and to return the proceedings to the investigation phase, as the lawyers had also requested, considering that their defense rights had been diminished. In the open case, the allegedly irregular hiring of senior managers in the public company Divalterra, which closed in June, to favor people related to the PSPV and Compromís. Jorge Rodríguez, mayor of OntinyentEuropa Press The sentence requested by the Prosecutor for Rodríguez is eight years in prison and 20 years of disqualification for the crimes of administrative prevarication , embezzlement of public funds and falsity in an official document. The same that he attributes to four others to defendants, also with the same sentence petitions. They are Ricard Gallego, who was his chief of staff in the provincial corporation; the adviser Manuel Reguart; and two former managers of the company: Agustina Brines (for Compromís) and José Ramón Tiller (for the PSPV). For Gallego and Reguart, it also adds necessary cooperation in a case in which the PP is an accusation and demands 18 years in prison for the former president. In June 2018, Rodríguez was even arrested. The other penalties requested The same Anti-Corruption prosecutor also requests six years in prison for seven other people hired as senior management positions: one for false documents and five for embezzlement of funds with necessary cooperation. For Divalterra’s lawyer-advisor, Jorge Cuerda, and for the manager Xavier Simón, he requests the same number of years as a prison sentence. They are accused of falsehood, embezzlement and prevarication. On the other hand, he considers that for another of those investigated, the dismissal of the case should be decreed.