Seville, (EFE).- The general secretary of the Facua consumer association, Rubén Sánchez, has presented this Monday a letter of conclusions in which he requests up to 5 and a half years in prison for the former leader of Vox Andalucía, Francisco Serrano, and two of his former partners, Enrique Pelegrín and Francisco Javier López, prosecuted for a possible crime of subsidy fraud and another of fraud.
The letter, to which EFE has had access, details that the organization will request, for each defendant, 4 years in prison for an alleged fraud in subsidies and 1 more year if they do not pay a fine of 9.6 million euros.
To this are added six months in prison for Francisco Serrano and another seven months for Enrique Pelegrín for an accounting crime, in addition to a joint compensation to the Ministry of Industry of 2,489,000 euros.
Complaint before the UDEF
At the beginning of 2023, Francisco Serrano was prosecuted for alleged subsidy fraud and fraud after receiving in 2016 a loan of almost 2.5 million euros from the Ministry of Industry. It is intended for purposes other than those established, which were the construction of a pellet factory in the Huelva town of Niebla, a project that he tried to carry out with two of his ex-partners, Enrique Pelegrín and Francisco Javier López, also accused. .
At present, only the main warehouse has been executed, for half a million euros, and the office building, for 142,600 euros, according to the report of the town council.
The investigation began after the complaint by Rubén Sánchez before the Economic and Fiscal Crime Unit (UDEF) of the National Police, after which a judicial process began that is still open today. EFE