The Criminal Chamber of the Supreme Court has communicated this Monday its rejection of the application of the amnesty to pro-independence leaders disqualified for a crime of embezzlement, while the investigating judge of the ‘procés’ also rejects amnesty to ‘Puigdemont and maintains his arrest warrant.
The Supreme Court has rejected this Monday the application of the amnesty on the crime of embezzlement for which the former vice president of the Generalitat Oriol Junqueras, among others, was convicted in the ‘procés’ case, and for which the former Catalan president is being prosecuted. Carles Puigdemont, whose national arrest warrant remains in place.
According to the decision communicated this Monday by the Second Chamber of the high court, the Amnesty Law that came into force just a few weeks ago would not serve to forgive the crime of embezzlement of public funds for which they were sentenced to disqualification, within the framework of the ‘procés’, Junqueras and other independence leaders such as Raül Romeva and Jordi Turull.
Neither would Puigdemont be protected by the rule nor would those also investigated in the Comín and Puig case, over whom the investigating magistrate of the ‘procés’, Pablo Llarena, maintains the national arrest warrants for his alleged responsibility in a crime of embezzlement, according to to another order also issued this Monday.
In a statement, the Judiciary has highlighted the “interpretive difficulties” that the Supreme Court has dealt with given the “high speed” with which the Amnesty Law was processed and approved.
