26 Dec, 2022 @ 18:30
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Disgraced Junta de Andalucia President Jose Griñan ‘has cancer’

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GUILTY: Ex-Junta president Grinan helped swindle millions from the Junta over a 10 year period and is facing years behind bars

DISGRACED former President of the Junta de Andalucia Jose Antonio Griñan who was given 10 days to surrender himself to jail is still not behind bars.

On Friday (December 23) a judge ordered him to undertake a medical after his defence lawyer pleaded that Griñan is suffering from prostate cancer and that his treatment “cannot be carried out in the penitentiary centre.”

The court wants to know if his imprisonment would affect his treatment.

Griñan’s lawyer has asked for his jail term to be suspended until his prescribed treatment is completed.

The 76-year-old was handed a six-year stretch for his role in overseeing the disgraceful ERE scandal in which almost €1 billion disappeared from public coffers between 2001 and 2009.

Lawyers for the former Junta president have been battling to suspend the sentence since he was sentenced in 2019.

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He worked up the ladder to be chief reporter and sub editor on the Hastings Observer and later news editor on the Bridlington Free Press.
At the time of the first Gulf War he started working for the Sunday Mirror, covering news stories as diverse as Mick Jagger’s wedding to Jerry Hall (a scoop gleaned at the bar at Heathrow Airport) to massive rent rises at the ‘feudal village’ of Princess Diana’s childhood home of Althorp Park.
In 1994 he decided to move to Spain with his girlfriend (now wife) and brought up three children here.
He initially worked in restaurants with his father, before rejoining the media world in 2013, working in the local press before becoming a copywriter for international firms including Accenture, as well as within a well-known local marketing agency.
He joined the Olive Press as a self-employed journalist during the pandemic lock-down, becoming news editor a few months later.
Since then he has overseen the news desk and production of all six print editions of the Olive Press and had stories published in UK national newspapers and appeared on Sky News.

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