Gustavo Galán has been for just a few weeks the lawyer of the former PP Treasurer Luis Bárcenas. Boast of being behind the strategic turn that your client has taken by detonating his pact with the party and offering to collaborate with Justice. But also, like Bárcenas, this lawyer also knows what it is like to have his wife convicted of the case belt.
His partner and client is Isabel Jordán, who accumulates sentences that amount to 21 years in prison. But in your case, He has spent very little time behind bars and is already out of prison enjoying semi-freedom. It is an outlier in long sentences like yours. She was the administrator of Francisco Correa’s companies, the leader of the plot that has meant an endless way of the cross for the PP.
He occupied a privileged place to learn the secrets of the corruption case that the Government ended up costing Mariano Rajoy. The Supreme Court confirmed in 2018 a sentence of six years for her by the Valencian branch of belt. To this are added the 14 years and six months imposed by the National Court for Period I of belt. It is the same case for which Bárcenas were sentenced to 29 years and his wife, Rosalía Iglesias, almost 13 years.
The revenge of Bárcenas
Bárcenas has announced that the reason for his change is take revenge for the unfulfilled promise of the PP to save his wife from jail. He considers himself naive for having believed in that commitment. Galán denies that the plan seeks to access prison benefits, but the truth is that he already knows that path.
Isabel Jordán received in October the confirmation of her sentence to 14 years and ten months enjoying the third degree of penitentiary. By adding more than double years of sentence, the Ministry of the Interior returned him to the common regime in the second degree in the Alcalá Meco prison. Nevertheless, only stayed a few weeks before returning to CIS by virtue of a decision of the Central Court of Penitentiary Surveillance of the National High Court.
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Bárcenas has changed lawyers several times. This work has been carried out before by lawyers such as Miguel Bajo and Alfonso Trallero. They left him due to loss of confidence and discrepancies over defense strategy. He was replaced by the former judge of the National Court Javier Gómez de Liaño. This lawyer is now blamed by Bárcenas for not allowing him to offer more details to Justice when he declared in 2013 in the National Court as investigated.
In the footsteps of Jordan
Since 2015, he was represented by Joaquín Ruiz de Infante’s office until just a few weeks ago. The strategy that he has resumed returns him to 2013. The first step has been eight pages forwarded to the Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office. His lawyer’s wife did something similar. At the end of 2019, she offered to give more information about the plot before the court that tried her for her activities in Jerez de la Frontera.
Jordán was sentenced to one year and two months in prison thanks to the fact that the Prosecutor’s Office lowered her request for an initial sentence of seven years. Went after provide revelations that led the Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office to raise the reopening of the case in the Supreme Court against the deputy of the PP and mayor of Jerez at the time of the events, María José García-Pelayo, who testified as a witness in the trial.
Isabel Jordán also testified against Esperanza Aguirre at Punic case of the National Court where the former president of the Community of Madrid remains imputed. The wife of Bárcenas’ lawyer went to court after offering to tell what she knew to the anti-corruption prosecutor’s office. Gustavo Galán also represents the former mayor of Majadahonda, Guillermo Ortega, another convicted in belt. Like the other clients of this lawyer, he also collaborated accusing Aguirre of knowing the irregular financing of the party in Madrid.
Agreements with the Prosecutor’s Office
The possibility of a pact now between Bárcenas and the Prosecutor’s Office makes sense if the way in which the lawyer Galán advertised himself on his website is taken into account: “A professional with marked experience in extrajudicial resolutions of which they are an example, especially, agreements with the Anti-corruption Prosecutor’s Office “.
Galán claims to be a “newcomer” to the cause that will sit Bárcenas again on the dock from Monday. This time it is for Box B of the party and the money that was used in the reform of the central headquarters of the PP. However, the lawyer knows well the ins and outs of the corruption that affected the PP. In his letter sent to the Public Prosecutor’s Office, Bárcenas also offers to collaborate in Púnica or in the piece of irregular financing that Judge Pedraz is investigating and that it affects the hard core of the last government of José María Aznar.
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