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The
prosecutor in the Malaya corruption case based in Marbella, Juan
Carlos López Caballero, has fiercely defended the instruction
of the case carried out initially by the magistrate, Miguel Ángel
Torres.
The
judge has come under attack over the past two weeks as appeals have
been heard in the Malaga Provincial Court from 63 of those accused,
many against Torres’ conclusions in the summary produced in
2007.
The
appeals ended on Friday against the first of the three case summaries.
For
the prosecutor one of the main pillars of the investigation came
from the accounts found in the offices of Salvador Gardoqui, Juan
Antonio Roca’s accountant. He said any attempt of the defence
lawyers to ignore the evidence in the accounts was to deny reality.
‘It is irrational to claim that Roca paid Gardoqui to create
a set of fake accounts’, said López Caballero.
Reports
that he also dismissed another claim heard during the appeals, that
the initials on such accounts did not correspond to the Marbella
councillors as claimed, but the prosecutor noted that payments made
were exactly in proportion to the responsibility held by the councillors
concerned.
The
lawyers representing those charged in the Marbella Malaya corruption
case have attacked the actions of Judge Torres, the first instruction
judge in the case, and called for another investigation. The lawyers
consider that the instruction of the case was rushed, and want more
evidence to be found, criticising too what they claim were forced
confessions.
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