Barcelona (EFE) that the leader of Junts allegedly attributed to finger.
In the process of final conclusions, the public ministry has modified the sentences of six years and three years in prison that it initially requested for the other two defendants in the case: Isaías H., a friend of Borràs who is a beneficiary of the contracts, and Andreu P. , who allegedly volunteered to invoice work in his name to hide the alleged award by hand.
The reason for the reduction, the Prosecutor’s Office has argued, is the application of the confession mitigation to these two defendants, who in their statement before the court confessed to the alleged irregularities and betrayed Laura Borràs, by admitting that the contracts were awarded by finger and that they followed instructions from the president of Junts on how to hide it.
In this sense, the Anti-Corruption Prosecutor Teresa Duerto has recalled that the defendants, to whom she attributes the crimes of prevarication and document falsification, “have declared that they recognize the facts and participation”, which has been of vital “importance to clarify the facts”. prosecuted.
His request to sentence Borràs remains in the same terms: six years in prison, 21 years of disqualification and a fine of 146,000 euros for the crimes of prevarication and document falsification for allegedly awarding his friend 18 minor contracts between March 2013 and February 2017, when he directed the Institute of Catalan Letters (ILC).
