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The Criminal Court number 31 of Madrid has acquitted the PP and three of its workers in the trial for the formatting and destruction of Bárcenas' laptops. One of the keys to this ruling is that it is not sufficiently proven that these computers were property of the former treasurer of the PP, so it cannot be sentenced for the crime of computer damage. Other keys are the lack of certainty that the hard drives contained sensitive information that affected the PP, the lack of credibility of Bárcenas, or that the formatting and destruction of the drives complied with security standards. You can read the full ruling here . Discover more stories on Business Insider Spain. This Wednesday morning, the Criminal Court number 31 of Madrid acquitted the accused, the PP and three of its workers, for what has become known as the Bárcenas computer plot.
Justice was deciding whether crimes of computer damage and cover-up had been committed when in the first half of 2013 the hard drives of two laptop computers that were in a room at the national PP headquarters, on Génova Street in Madrid, were formatted. This room is known as the Andalucía room, and was used by the former treasurer, Luis Bárcenas, as an office. After hearing the news, the PP spokesperson Middle East Phone Number List in the Congress of Deputies, Cayetana Álvarez de Toledo, has demanded an apology from her political rivals for questioning "the honor of the party." Read more: Aguirre and Cifuentes, charged in Púnica for belonging to a criminal organization But the truth is that the sentence, signed by Judge Eduardo Muñoz de Baena and which extends over more than 70 pages, dictates acquittal because on the one hand it follows the Botín doctrine and on the other there is a lack of evidence to support certain accusations.

These were the prosecution's requests... A worker at the Plaza Castilla Criminal Courts, in Madrid. A worker at the Plaza Castilla Criminal Courts, in Madrid. Already in the investigation phase, the Public Prosecutor's Office made an acquittal. For their part, three entities appeared as litigants. The first popular accusation is Izquierda Unida, which asked for four and a half years in prison for the three party workers and for the political organization a fine of 5,000 euros per day for three years. The Observatori de Drets Humans Association (DESC) asked the workers involved for between one year and ten months in prison and two years in prison, or a sentence of accessory disqualification in their respective professions of six years. The party was required to suspend activity for six months and be prohibited from receiving private donations for five years. For its part, the third and last popular accusation, the Association of Democratic Lawyers for Europe - ADADE - demanded two years for the workers, and for the PP, a three-year fine with a daily fee of 100,000 euros.
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