Former ambassador Raúl Morodo received a reduction in the three-year sentence that the Prosecutor’s Office requested against him for these crimes related to corruption, thanks to an agreement with the authorities and pleading guilty. His son, Alejo, has a two-year prison sentence but that does not necessarily mean that they have to be behind bars.
Raúl Morodo, who served as Spanish ambassador to Venezuela during the presidency of José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, accepted this Monday, October 14, a sentence of 10 months in prison for hiding profits in the order of 4.5 million from the Treasury of his country. of dollars that his son, Alejo Modoro Cañeque, obtained in business with Petróleos de Venezuela (Pdvsa) between 2013 and 2014.
The Spanish Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office requested a sentence of three and a half years in prison for the former ambassador and eight and a half years for his son and daughter-in-law. However, in the case of Morodo, the prison time was reduced by applying the mitigating circumstances of confession and reparation for the damage after he and his son had deposited a total of 1,410,000 euros of the debt contracted with the Spanish Treasury.
For his part, Morodo Cañeque will pay two years in prison for the same crimes that the former ambassador was accused of. These sentences, according to EFE, do not mean that both have to go to a prison facility. However, Ana Catarina Varandas, the wife of Alejo Morodo, faces a request for a sentence from the Prosecutor’s Office of eight and a half years in prison, as well as two accusations against her for the alleged commission of tax crimes that maintains the Clean Hands union.
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In this way, the trial will continue regarding Varandas, who stated before the court that he does not plead guilty to said crimes.
Despite this, the prosecutor’s request for confiscation of profits allegedly obtained illicitly by Alejo Morodo in 2011 and 2012 for more than 340,000 euros and a property in Madrid will continue to be the subject of the trial, since it is an issue that has not been resolved. been included in the conformity agreements.
According to the accusation, they are being tried for allegedly having hidden from the Ministry of Finance the alleged collection of some 4.5 million euros from PDVSA through alleged false legal advice contracts contracted with the Venezuelan oil company between 2012 and 2015, the time for which which Modoro no longer headed the embassy, review Infobae.
Likewise, the money was laundered through an alleged plot of companies created by the son, his wife and two Venezuelan partners, among whom is Juan Carlos Márquez, who was found hanged at his home in Madrid after giving a statement at the National Court. for these facts. This death was considered a suicide.
With information from The Time
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