The former leader of the PNV Alava has been transferred from Zaballa prison to Basauri and will be given a semi-liberal permit from Monday, 13 months after entering prison, to serve a 9-year prison sentence for corruption.
Alfredo de Miguelconvicted in the biggest conspiracy of political corruption She is sentenced in the Hego Euskal Herria and is released from prison every day, where she has to go back to sleep, thirteen months after she began serving her effective sentence of nine years in prison.
The former leader of the Alava PNV entered Zaballa Prison in Alava on July 6, 2023, to begin serving his sentence of twelve years and four months. he will spend 9 years in prisonafter he was convicted of leading a network to irregularly obtain government contracts from PNV-controlled governments and collect commissions.
As sources from the Ministry of Justice and Human Rights, which manages prisons in Euskadi, confirmed to EFE, the treatment board of the Zaballa prison in Alava, where he is serving his sentence, rejected his request for transfer to the third degree (semi-freedom regime).
His lawyers appealed this decision to the Penitentiary Supervision Court, which applied Article 100.2 of the Penitentiary Regulations. allow you to go to work abroad without being classified in the third grade.
With this measure the newspaper The mail states in his edition of this Saturday that De Miguel was that transferred yesterday from the Alava prison of Zaballa to the Vizcaya prison of Basauri Where from next Monday He will be leaving prison tomorrow morning to go to work in a consultancy firm in Bizkaia and will have to return to the correctional center to sleep.
According to that newspaper, the fact that he attended a specific course in prison for those convicted of economic crimes, that he worked in the prison library and that he coordinated the prisoners’ vote by post, contributed to De Miguel gaining access to semi-freedom.
Source: EITB

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