The Court of Castellón has annulled the decision of the Instructive Court No. 4 of the capital La Plana, forcing the investigating judge to include among the defendants the businessman and president of Villarreal CF, Fernando Roig, in the case that is investigating the former Carlos Fabra , President of the Provincial Council and the PP of Castellón, for alleged concealment of assets to avoid the execution of his sentence for four tax offenses.
Roig was initially charged with alleged bribery and collaboration in preventing the execution of the sentence, for which Fabra was convicted and forced to pay a fine of 1.3 million euros, of which he owed almost a million euros, according to information filed with the Department of Economic Affairs. and Tax Crimes (Udef), he received a dozen “personal loans” from businessmen and politicians and managed 2.7 million euros of cash earned by Fabra between 2007 and 2017, in addition to other amounts “not ultimately used to settle the outstanding amounts became”. Debt to the administration.”
The court opened this case in 2017 following a complaint from the anti-corruption prosecutor's office. Before the judge, the president of Villareal CF and the Pamesa group explained in 2020 that he lent money to Carlos Fabra because he was his friend. The judge then indicted Fernando Roig and other businessmen for their involvement in the conspiracy planned by Fabra, in which several members of his family were also implicated. But the court found a formal deficiency in his statement and the judge, who had recently entered Court No. 4, decided to file the case regarding Roig since “no evidence allows to link the loans granted to another operation in to bring a connection that goes beyond Fernando Roig's decision to help Carlos “Fabra”, with which he considered that there was no evidence that the money that Roig gave to Fabra was related to the contracts that the businessman had received from the Provincial Council of Castellón or “that they had concluded in response to his political influence” and for which he was also accused of bribery.
According to the Supreme Court of the Valencian Community, the first department of the Court of Castellón has now ordered that the businessman be reinstated in the list of defendants and that a new abbreviated procedural order be issued containing all the allegations, including a trial, which will take months to process.
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