Former judge Salvador Alba has already entered prison to serve a sentence of six and a half years in prison for crimes of bribery, prevarication and documentary falsification.
Finally, the magistrate ended up going “voluntarily” to the Salto del Negro penitentiary center, in Gran Canaria, after the Superior Court of Justice of the Canary Islands ordered his search and capture this Tuesday.
The sentence has been final since November 2021, but Alba has been trying to avoid complying with it ever since, with different strategies, challenges and appeals that have been failing.
Last Thursday, a police patrol personally notified Salvador Alba at his home, in the municipality of Telde, that the TSJC had rejected his request to suspend the sentence for health reasons and that he had 24 hours to voluntarily appear in prison.
On Friday he alleged defects in the processing of a challenge against another magistrate (a challenge that, in reality, was not even admitted for processing because it was presented after the deadline) and issues such as his request for pardon and his request to obtain at least a postponement for health reasons; and on Sunday he tried to remove the president of the TSJC, José Luis Lorenzo Bragado, from the execution of his sentence due to alleged contacts with Victoria Rosell.
In three orders dated this Monday the 17th, but which have been notified to the parties this Tuesday, the Criminal Chamber of the TSJC flatly rejects all these last-minute attempts to abort the possibility of an arrest warrant being issued, which is what the court ended up doing.
However, before his arrest, Alba decided to go “voluntarily” to prison, pending a decision on the center where he will serve his sentence.
