José Luis Pérez Pastor is one of the lawyers of the Andalusian Junta that exonerated 14 former political leaders of the Socialist Workers Party accused of corruption in A separate piece of IDEA approvals. … Before returning to his position in the legal office, this lawyer worked between 2019 and 2023 as director of Correos under the chairmanship of Juan Manuel SerranoFriend of Pedro Sanchez. On May 19, 2019, Serrano signed Pérez Pastor as Deputy Secretary General of the General Postal Company, part of the State Society of Industrial Contributions (SEPI), under the leadership of the Minister of Finance, Maria Jesus Montero.
The regional lawyer exonerated former Innovation Minister Francisco Vallejo and the entire IDEA board of directors in an article focused on “Arbitrary and unfair” aid, in the form of a guarantee, Awarded to the Seville company Cofrutex, where 17 people were tried for fraudulent crimes and embezzlement of public funds.
The legal office criminalizes only two former general directors, a former director of IDEA, and three businessmen who benefited from public assistance from 1.2 million were lost due to management negligence. Although they have not been charged, the lawyers defending the Council’s interests are not abandoning the practice of civil lawsuits against former senior officials who are asked by the Attorney General’s Office, IDEA lawyers and the Public Prosecution to issue prison sentences and disqualification. The legal office’s letter was also signed by Antonio José Gayo Rubio and María Rocío Galvin Fananas, whose opinion was not shared by the Andalusian government, which still assumes this, claiming that its lawyers work “independently.”
Between 2019 and 2023, before returning to his work as regional lawyer, Pérez Pastor held other positions at the Correos Group, whose president until December 2023 was Juan Manuel Serrano. This was it Prime Minister of the Federal Executive of the Socialist Workers’ Party Before the arrival of the incumbent president to La Moncloa, who accompanied Sanchez on a car tour of Spain to gather support from extremists in the primaries.
Pérez Pastor was Chairman of the Board of Directors Communications Post Office And the subsidiary company Nexia document management. In the government company, he coincided with another director, Lier Diez. The woman known as the PSOE “Plumber” was the Post Office’s director of philatelic and corporate relations between 2022 and 2024. She is now being investigated for influence peddling and bribery offences.
He refused to submit an inquiry to the European Court
The Cofrutex case is not the first in which José Luis Pérez Pastor has taken a position with a writing that has nothing to do with the standards of the Andalusian government of the People’s Party. Last June, he sent a paper of claims to the investigating judge in the Corruption Investigation Authority and the Avales case, in which he rejected the judge’s initiative to file a preliminary ruling or consultation before the Court of Justice of the European Union to reopen corruption summaries that had been filed due to formal defects, due to the deadline system that imposes the extension of judicial investigations.
Pérez Pastor was born in 1978 and obtained a law degree from the Pablo de Olavide University in Seville. He has belonged to the Andalusian Government Bar Association since 2007. As such, he took up his position in the Legal Service of the Province of Almería and in the Central Services of the Legal Office, where he combined advisory and controversial work.