Valencia (EFE).- The former president of the Valencia Provincial Council and former provincial president of the PP Alfonso Rus has stated that he felt he was the victim of “a political trial by the Prosecutor’s Office” and of an “invention” consisting of the fact that he had money or property in Brazil, where he has not traveled since 1978 when, he assured, “I was at the Carnival with my wife.”
Rus, who has exercised the right to the last word in the trial of the Imelsa case for alleged ‘zombie’ workers – who were paid without going to work – has considered being a victim of “bad faith” and “being sentenced” before going to court. judgment.
“I have never understood this trial, because I never took care of whether or not there were advisers. There were the same ones before I was president. I never found out about that or was interested in it, ”Rus pointed out before informing the court of the“ suffering ”that being silent for 7 years has caused him due to his“ verbal incontinence ”.
“You sent a requisition, or whatever it is called, because in Brazil there is banking secrecy, and they received the answer three years ago and they have kept quiet, because Rus has nothing. I don’t know what I’m doing here for three months, apart from showing my face and being responsible, ”he added.
The court has asked Rus to focus on the issues seen in this trial and not to make reference to the rest of the cases that he has pending and the former popular leader has used one more minute to indicate to the prosecutor that he “was wrong” in the figures, that he managed more than 3,500 million euros in the Valencia Provincial Council and that he saved more than 80 million in personnel.