Varapalo for Griñán in the ‘case of the ERE’: this is Mariate, his great refuge in the storm

The Supreme Court has ensured that the former president of the Junta de Andalucía Jose Antonio Grinan (76) was “aware of the illegality” of the criteria followed with the ERE. At the same time, he has highlighted his “passivity” in the face of the “waste and arbitrariness” with which the aid was granted.

This is stated in the 1,205-page sentence that was released this Wednesday and whose ruling had been advanced on July 26. Griñán is married to Maria Theresa Caravaca for more than half a century. She is his greatest personal support in the ‘case of the ERE’.

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Remembered is that kiss that was given to everyone after the former socialist leader won the Andalusian elections in 2012. Her participation during her husband’s campaign was active. Her reactions and her Twitter posts have also been commented on over the years. Mariateas her friends and acquaintances affectionately call her, has aristocratic blood, since She is the great-granddaughter of the 10th Marquis of Nevares..

After a few years of courtship, they were married in 1970, in the Cathedral of Seville. They did it when he already had his professional life on track, since he did not give him the ‘yes, I want’ until he passed the Labor Technician opposition in 1969, thus obtaining a position as a civil servant.

They have three children: Manuel (married since 2001 to Carmen Piñeiro Otero), Well y Miguel, which was born as a result of a “happy oversight” (in the words of the former president) about ten years after the birth of the middle daughter of the couple. Griñán and Mariate they are grandparents of a few grandchildren.

New setback for Griñán

The High Court has confirmed the conviction of the former presidents of the Junta de Andalucía Manuel Chavez (between 1990 and 2009) and José Antonio Griñán (between 2009 and 2013) for the irregular use of regional subsidies for Employment Regulation Files (ERE).

In the resolution, collected by Europa Press, it is known that the sentence of 9 years of disqualification for prevarication for Chaves is maintained. For Griñán, for his part, the 6 years in prison for prevarication and embezzlement are confirmed, although his family has already presented the request for pardon to the Ministry of Justice.

The ruling clarifies that the defendants “have not been convicted because of their position, but because the different assumptions typical of the imputed crimes have been proven and because it has been proven that they acted with full knowledge of the facts.”

The court has concluded that Griñán “had a central role in the preparation and approval of the budget regulations as a result of the powers assigned to his positions.” According to the Supreme Court, the “use of financing transfers to circumvent the subsidy regulations and, singularly, the prior control of the Intervention was already a very revealing fact that the management of the aid could give rise to arbitrariness and waste”.

Griñán himself, along with the rest of the convicts and thanks to his “decisions” and his “active behavior, made possible the illegal distribution of subsidies amounting to nearly 700 million euros and for a long period of 10 years.”

The ruling makes it clear that “the management of these flows was carried out as if they were their own, in favor of freely determined companies and individuals and according to the preferences and political interests of the authorities that granted the subsidies.”

The High Court insists that it is declared proven that Griñán “was aware of the illicit acts perpetrated with those funds and, as a consequence of the powers that corresponded to him, by exercising the highest functions within the Government of the Andalusian Government, he had the capacity to prevent that management mode”.