Las Palmas de Gran Canaria (EFE) 4 of Santa Cruz de Tenerife his release, for understanding that he is a “social corpse” with no capacity to destroy evidence.
In the letter addressed to the Court to which EFE has had access, Espinosa’s lawyer has once again demanded the release of his client after the statements of the two witnesses who were summoned on March 31 have been suspended.
These were a woman who in the case the police reports refer to as Espinosa’s lover and the rally driver Luis Monzón, through whom those involved in the plot allegedly intended to gain influence with two important businessmen from Gran Canaria. to those who wanted to sell solar panels, the owners of the Lopesan hotel group and UD Las Palmas.
In his letter, the lawyer states that this suspension of the statements of the witnesses supposes a delay in the investigation that has not been caused by his client, but harms him.
In addition, he alleges that the investigation is taking longer than desired and “procedurally appropriate”, and that the evidence in the case against his client does not imply, in his opinion, “an eventual commission of crimes especially serious neither in terms of their significance, nor in terms of their amount”.
General Espinosa was arrested on February 14 on charges of bribery, influence peddling and belonging to a criminal group, accused of being one of the ringleaders of a plot that allegedly collected bribes from businessmen to mediate on their behalf in contracts or public aid or Avoid inspections and sanctions. By sending him to prison, the judge cited a fourth crime: money laundering.
His defense also argues that he has been “fully collaborating” during the investigation of the case, both when testifying before the judge and in the searches carried out by the Internal Affairs Service of the Civil Guard.
It also questions whether General Espinosa “is the only one” of the defendants who “has some capacity to manipulate evidence”, if he should suffer the consequences of the delay in carrying out the proceedings and if it is fair that he remain in prison while “other subjects involved they take advantage of and use this procedure to achieve ‘notoriety’”.
Likewise, the lawyer wonders if his client has any ability to alter or destroy evidence, when “he has been retired for more than two years” and has been “the object of exposure and public ridicule in a large number of media.”
“What capacity can he have in anything and in anyone?” argues the lawyer, who points out that it is “more than evident that Mr. Espinosa is a ‘social corpse’ with no capacity to relate to anyone, much less with the possibility of affect in any way any type of evidence that may be practiced in the procedure”. EFE