Josep Santacana, ex-husband of Arantxa Sánchez Vicario, appeals his sentence of 3 years and 3 months in prison

The ex-husband of former tennis player Arantxa Sánchez Vicario, Joseph Santacanahas requested to annul his sentence of three years and three months in prison for a crime of confiscation of assets by hiding his assets to avoid paying the Bank of Luxembourg a debt of 7.5 million euros.

In the resource, to which you have had access Europa Pressalleges that his right to defense and to a procedure with due guarantees was violated due to the agreement between the Prosecutor's Office and the former tennis player, which attributed all responsibility to Santacana and designated him as responsible for managing his assets.

Santacana's defense considers that “the facts declared proven by the appealed sentence are manifestly contradictory with the arguments made to declare them proven” and also sees his right to the presumption of innocence violated.

In this sense, he affirms that the evidence against him is insufficient and adds that a mitigating circumstance should have been computed for undue delays given that “the overall duration of the criminal procedure has been practically eight years.”

In this case, the 25th Criminal Court of Barcelona also sentenced Sánchez Vicario to two years in prison, which he will not serve on the condition of not reoffending, and both to pay joint compensation of 6,620,127.60 euros to the Bank of Luxembourg.