Camps not guilty of corruption

Wednesday, 01 February 2012 10:23

Written by Editor

The nine-member jury in the case against former Partido Popular regional premier of Valencia... ...Francisco Camps, and his co-defendant, former PP secretary general in Valencia, Ricardo Costa, returned a not guilty verdict by five-to-four last week after a three-day deliberation. They were accused of receiving gifts from the Gürtel network of businessmen who are currently facing charges of bribing PP officials in Valencia, Castilla-La Mancha and Madrid in return for public contracts worth millions of euros. Francisco Correa, the jailed alleged ringleader of Gürtel, gave evidence in the trial against Camps and Costa. The Gürtel case erupted in 2009 when High Court Judge Baltasar Garzón blew the lid on the network. Garzón was tried last week in the Supreme Court for tapping telephone conversations between jailed Gürtel suspects and their lawyers. The court has yet to reach a verdict.