US EditionCerdan's Defense Calls for His Release and Accuses the Judge of Using the Prison "as a Coercive Measure"
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Santos Cerdán’s lawyers have petitioned the Supreme Court on Tuesday to release the former secretary of PSOE’s organization, imprisoned since June 30 for his alleged involvement in the rig of public works in exchange for commissions during the José Luis Ábalos stage in the Ministry of Transport. In a closed hearing, the defense has complained that Cerdán is suffering a “presumption of indecency”, rather than the “presumption of innocence” that t…
On Tuesday, the Criminal Division of the Supreme Court held a hearing to decide on the stay of the former Secretary of Organization of the PSOE Santos Cerdán in pretrial detention. During the hearing, the defence of the former socialist leader has assured that the judge of the Koldo case, Leopoldo Puente, has agreed to go to prison as a "coercive measure" to pressure Cerdán and force him to cooperate with the justice system. According to legal s…
Pedro Sánchez seems to be getting a taste for taking the Spanish people for fools. He's done it again, following his latest statements from Montevideo, where the Prime Minister had the nerve to boast of democratic integrity and attack the Popular Party when its two most recent Secretaries of Organization, José Luis Ábalos and Santos Cerdán, are in jail (in the case of the latter) or close to it (in the case of the former). Read more]]>
Santos Cerdán's defense asked the Supreme for his immediate release on Tuesday because, in his case, "the presumption of innocence has given way to the presumption of indecency", having been imprisoned without evidence. The strategy of his new defense - headed by Jacobo Teijelo, the lawyer linked to Ferraz's 'fontanera' - at the hearing this Tuesday went on to insist on his arguments in the appeal brief that the decision to place the accused in …
By way of example, sources from his surroundings indicate that the former head of the PSOE went to cut his hair and, when he went to pay, a prisoner wanted to invite him to offer...
The defense of the former number three of the PSOE Santos Cerdán has requested on Tuesday the release of his client since, since the Central Operating Unit (UCO) of the Civil Guard delivered on June 5 its report in which they placed him at the top of the alleged plot of public works awards, no entry and search has taken place at his home nor has the phone been seized to make a dump of it. They understand that this possibility of destroying evide…
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