ERC or United We Can have proposed to change it and the Spanish government has opened the door to study. The offense was already amended seven years ago, with the penal code reform passed in 2015 with the votes of the PP.
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The crime of embezzlement contemplates prison sentences for the authority or official who causes damage or appropriates public property “for himself or for a third party”, a wording that parties such as ERC or United We Can have raised to change and that the Spanish government has opened the door to study.
Following the proposal by the Socialist Group and United We Can to crime of sedition In that of “aggravated public disorder”, the political debate this Monday focused on the second crime for which some Catalan pro-independence leaders were also convicted on trial: embezzlement.
2015 reform
The crime of embezzlement was changed seven years ago, with the reform of the Penal Code passed in 2015 with the votes of the PP and the blocking rejection of the opposition. Until then, embezzlement required that the diverted government money result in personal gain or that of third parties.
The current ordinance penalizes from two to six years “an authority or government official” who engages in unfair management of public assets, that is, damages public funds while having the authority to manage them.
And the same penalties are inflicted on that authority or official who commits the crime of misappropriation of public property, that is, who appropriates public funds “for himself or for a third party”.
The current Penal Code contains a series of penalties from four to eight years’ imprisonment and from ten to twenty years’ disqualification based on a series of assumptions, such as having caused “serious harm or impairment of public service” or that the value of the securities appropriated exceeds €50,000.
And consider a sentence of maximum 12 years of the prison in the event that these assets exceed the 250,000 euros.
Discern personal gain
Pending the finalization of any proposals, Unidas Podemos has announced that it is studying an amendment to the penal code reform to allow embezzlement to be discriminated against when there is personal enrichment and when not There is, as explained Monday at a press conference by United We Can in Congress President Jaume Asens.
Who could benefit from a new reform?
Criticism from the right-wing opposition to a possible reform of the crime of embezzlement is not long in coming, given that both Leaders of Catalan Independence tried, prosecuted or fled the cause of trial as the former socialist leader Jose Antonio Grinan.
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