The magistrates affirm that there is no evidence that the loans had been granted “through an unfair resolution, diverting the funds received and applying them to other purposes or for the benefit of third parties”.
In addition, the directors of Invercaria “performed the technical, economic and financial and feasibility analyzes complying with the demands to which they were obliged”.
During the trial, the Anti- Corruption Prosecutor requested five and a half years in prison for prevarication and embezzlement for the designer, while the Idea agency, Invercaria’s sole partner, requested eight years.
The Public Ministry also claimed eight years for the former president of Invercaria Tomas Perez-Sauquillo, six and a half for the former director of Promotion Cristobal Cantos and six years and one day for the former financial director Antonio Nieto.This was the second trial of several in which the Invercaria case has been divided and the first to conclude with an acquittal.
According to the sentence, Juana Martin “was proposed to carry out the project” and the fact that there were losses in society due to the economic crisis “cannot serve as a basis for the imputation of the crimes of prevarication and embezzlement by the who are accused.”
The magistrates emphasize that the former president of Invercaria “had the capacity to grant the participatory loan” and did so after the technical, economic and financial feasibility studies and analyses” carried out by the former financial director and the former director of Promotion, which ” They had no decision-making powers. Therefore, “no arbitrariness involved the granting” of aid.
From the statements of those investigated “it follows that the procedure was not breached in the different phases, both in the phase of study, negotiation, formalization and monitoring of the operations, as well as in the granting of the loan”, according to the ruling, while , in relation to the performance of Juana Martin, “it is known that it was from Invercaria, through its representatives,those who approached her to carry out a brand diffusion and promotion project , which made her, logically, become interested in the project, given that it was having great success at a national level”.
The magistrates analyze in the sentence the tests practiced in the oral hearing and say that, from the testimonials developed, the viability of the project is also inferred, since the witnesses declared that “it was a successful brand in the flamenco clothing market, that had paraded in Pasarela Cibeles and had several awards”.
Juana Martin: “I’m not a nini, nobody has given me anything”
The sentence was collected personally by the designer, who expressed her relief to this newspaper after nine years of “day-to-day harassment in the press”, which have done “enormous damage to my family and especially to my father , who died of cancer and whose last exit from the hospital was to testify in court“.
“It’s been nine years of continued harassment and injustice , they stoned me, I had very harmful people saying barbarities while I just worked. Invercaria offered me a project and I accepted it, but the bad fortune of the economic situation that we were going through in that moment,” I declare.
He laments that “many people used this case to attack me, to not pay me and to do me a lot of damage.”But he adds that “Invercaria was not mistaken in betting on Juana Martin because they wanted to carry out a project so that the Andalucia brand would be an international leader. At the time it was done and today the Juana Martin brand is touring the entire world.”
The designer declares that ” I am not a nini, nobody has given me anything for free, what I have I have earned and I have worked for it. I started working when I was 20 years old and I have always been a fighter, I do not steal from anyone nor have I stolen in my life”. The first thing she is going to do, she says, is “embrace my family, enjoy my husband and my son and go visit my father at the Cordoba cemetery”.
