The Provincial Court of A Coruña will hold a trial on Tuesday, the 14th, for fraud and forgery in a public document, and on the 16th another for fraud, both against a lawyer, according to the Superior Court of Xustiza de Galicia (TSXG).
In the first, the Prosecutor’s Office maintains that the lawyer deceived a client “knowing that it could mean his immediate admission to prison.” For the crimes of fraud, falsification of a public document and falsification of a private document, he requests a sentence of six years and eleven months in prison.
The Public Ministry places the events between 2014 and 2017 and affirms that, allegedly, the lawyer deceived his client by assuring him that he had spoken with the private prosecution and that, instead of installment payments in relation to a lawsuit in which he was involved, I would accept a single payment of 3,000 euros and forgive the rest.
The prosecutor argues that “there was no such negotiation” and that the client “gave him the money convinced that this would reduce the total amount of civil liability.” He also argues that the attorney prepared a court order order “that lacked authenticity.”
In the case of the 16th, two men, father and son, who were in prison for the crime of kidnapping, accused him of having kept money after promising that he would get them released.
“Acting with the desire to enrich themselves and without any intention of fulfilling the professional obligations assumed”, the Prosecutor’s Office assures that it required two payments of 3,000 euros, in 2014, in addition to another of 600 euros.
The Public Ministry considers the facts constituting a continuous crime of fraud and another of professional disloyalty for which it requests, respectively, three years in prison and a 20-month fine.
