Francisco Serrano: The former Vox leader in Andalusia will sit on the bench in 2026 for an alleged subsidy fraud | Andalusia news
The Seville Court has set the trial against the former Vox leader in Andalusia and Judge in Excess, Francisco Serrano, Francisco Serrano, Francisco Serrano, Francisco Serrano, for a supposed fraud of subsidies and fraud having received in 2016 a loan of almost 2.5 million euros from the Ministry of Industry for a pellet factory and diverting those funds for expenses outside the end of the help received. The Seville Prosecutor’s Office has requested six years in prison and 5,470 euros for fraud and, as an alternative, if the facts were considered as a crime of subsidies in subsidies, eight years in prison and a fine of 14.8 million euros.
The oral view is scheduled to be held between May 4 and 26 next year and together with Serrano, their partners will sit on the bench in that project baptized under the name of Biowood Niebla, Enrique Pelegrín and Javier López, accused of the same crimes. In the case, the particular accusation that andThe general secretary of the Facua consumer organization, Rubén Sánchez, Ask for 10 years in prison.
According to the magistrate who instructed the cause, The one who was a candidate for the Junta de Andalucía by Vox in 2018 gave a fictional “solvency image” and lied by providing information to capture the Government subsidy through its Serrano lawyers society. Serrano achieved the subsidy after providing its own funds for 7,000 euros and a machinery « that was never bought or possessed by the partners, so the statement was not adjusted to the truth, » according to the processing order. The plan was that the Biowood Niebla firm invested a million, « after appearing a financial solvency that it did not have and achieve the concession of the loan in an improper way, » says the judicial letter. After receiving the money from industry, the judge in absence began to divert funds for purposes outside the project. More than half of the public subsidy (1.3 million) was destined to create an investment fund while “loans were formalized to Francisco Serrano companies, such as Xyz Communications, Serrano Lawyers and Serralba, with 24,180 euros, and the payment of a loan not returned by Xyz Communications,” says the instructor.
In March 2024, the Provincial Court of Seville decided to open the oral trial TIt would reject a resource of Serrano in which he claimed that he had been the victim of the criminal strategies of his partners. The judges were sharp in the justification of their decision by warning that their exculpatory allegation « in principle is misbehaved with the training of appellant as a jurist and with the circumstance of sharing headquarters with the mercantiles involved », referring to the fact that the partner of the law firm of the former Vox lawyer was the same as that of Biowood Niebla, the company investigated.
