Costa del Sol
Málaya prosecutor supports case instruction
By h.b. - Oct 31, 2009 - 10:41 AM
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Anti-corruption prosecutor, Juan Carlos López Caballero, (left) and Judge Miguel Ángel Torres in 2007 - EFE
The first instructor of the case was Judge Miguel Ángel Torres
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 Málaga 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.
El País 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.