The Superior Court of Justice of the Canary Islands (TSJC) has given this Tuesday a new term of 10 days for the former magistrate of the Las Palmas Court Salvador Alba to voluntarily enter prison to begin serving his sentence of six and a half years in prison and 18 of disqualification as the author of crimes of prevarication, bribery and falsehood in the exercise of his office.
After the expiration of the term previously granted, the magistrate has been summoned before the Criminal Chamber and personally required to comply with the sentence imposed on him, in an appearance that took place at the headquarters of the TSJC, to which Alba attended in the company of the lawyer Pedro Ayala.
Salvador Alba has not made any statement before the lawyer of the Administration of Justice, when he was given the floor, and neither before the journalists at the exit of the TSJC, where he arrived almost an hour before the judicial appointment, which was notified to him last Monday by means of a provision.
According to sources from the high Canarian court informed Efe, Alba has been required again by the Criminal Chamber to proceed, also within 10 days, to the payment of the fine imposed on him in the sentence for the amount of 12,150 euros.
The TSJC has launched the execution of the rest of his sentence: 15 years and 6 months of special disqualification for the right of passive suffrage and 18 years of special disqualification to hold the public office of judge or magistrate, with the definitive loss of the office he holds and the honors that are attached to it.
Regarding the latter, on January 13, the General Council of the Judiciary began processing his file for expulsion from the judicial career.
During the time of the sentence, Salvador Alba has been incapacitated for any employment or position with jurisdictional or government functions within the Judiciary, or with jurisdictional functions outside of it.
He manipulated a criminal investigation
On September 10, 2019, the TSJC declared proven that Salvador Alba manipulated a criminal investigation for tax fraud directed against the businessman Miguel Ángel Ramírez to try to harm the judge Victoria Rosell, at the time when she was a deputy of Podemos in Congress for the province of Las Palmas.
According to the account of proven facts, Salvador Alba offered Ramírez to file that case -for which the businessman is now exposed to a request for a sentence of 21 years in prison and 105 million euros fine- if he helped him prove that Victoria Rosell had delayed that procedure due to economic interests of her partner.
It was also considered proven that he sent reports to the Supreme Court on Rosell's performance with contents that later turned out to be false, but that caused the Criminal Chamber to admit a complaint from the then minister José Manuel Soria against her, for which she was forced to resign her seat.
Those accusations against Rosell were filed months later by the TSJC, which exonerated her of any irregularity, and finally it was Alba who was prosecuted and convicted for his actions in the case.
