Madrid (EFE)
Legal sources have informed EFE that the second chamber of the guarantee court has endorsed studying the appeals presented by twelve of the 15 former senior socialist officials of the Board, whose sentences were generally ratified by the Supreme Court.
Griñán, sentenced to six years in prison for embezzlement of public funds, went two weeks ago to the Seville Court, which had summoned him for a forensic examiner from the Institute of Legal Medicine to determine if he can continue in prison the medical treatment he He is still suffering from prostate cancer and, therefore, assess the relevance of his admission to prison.
The report, already sent to the court, acknowledges that he has a very serious illness and that hospital services outside the prison should be used for treatment.
Former President Griñán is the only one of the former senior officials of the Board sentenced to prison who remains free, after the admission on April 11 in the Puerto III prison in El Puerto de Santa María (Cádiz) of the former Deputy Minister of Employment Agustín Barberá , also sick with cancer, to serve his seven-year sentence.