Overview
- The Audiencia de Valencia summoned Marcos Benavent to notify that his first Imelsa conviction is final and has opened the sentence execution process.
- He now has a 15-day prudential window to present himself voluntarily to a prison and may select the penitentiary where he will serve the sentence.
- The Supreme Court had earlier upheld the sentence of seven years and ten months for crimes including prevarication, embezzlement, falsehood and money laundering in the Thematica piece.
- Benavent, the former manager of public company Imelsa who once fled abroad and later cooperated with investigators, told reporters he accepts entering prison and used a resigned tone in his comments.
- The move marks the final procedural step in the long-running Imelsa macrocase that exposed irregular public contracts and led to multiple convictions of people linked to Thematica Events.