Cerdan'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…

The leader of the PP, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, has again urged the head of the executive, Pedro Sánchez, on Wednesday to call early elections because he is "collapsed" and has surpassed "all the records of corruption." The head of the opposition has put the focus on the fact that the last secretary of organization of the PSOE, Santos Cerdán, is in prison (confirmed this same Wednesday by the justice system) and the penultimate, José Luis Ábalos, ha…
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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 …
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