OFF LET

By Simon Hunter

history, a Sevilla court has suspended his sentence for five years.

The move comes after a forensic court doctor was tasked

Cold calls frozen out

NUISANCE calls interrupting you at dinner or while driving are set to become a thing of the past with a new Spanish law that comes into effect on July 1.

The General Telecommunications Law aims to tackle this form of spam which has become rampant in recent times. The law will outlaw ‘unsolicited phone calls to promote or sell goods or services.’ with deciding whether he was in a fit state to serve his punishment.

Unless someone has given explicit permission to companies to make these calls, they should now become a thing of the past. People must carefully check the conditions before ticking the box when dealing with companies, however, to prevent such requests from slipping through unawares. The permitted hours for commercial calls will remain between 9am and 9pm, except on public holidays when the hours will be from 10am to 3pm and from 4pm to 9pm.

After confirming he had a ‘very serious illness’ he ruled that the ‘prison regime’ would make recovery very difficult. Grinan had been found guilty of leading a part of the ERE scheme, which saw €680 million ‘vanish’ between 2001 and 2010.

Also sentenced in the case was another former leader, Manuel Chaves, while 12 of the 15 politicians sent to jail are appealing their sentences with the Supreme Court. A total of 21 PSOE socialist party officials went on trial in the ERE case, an acronym that refers to Spain’s workforce dismissal plan. Only two of them were acquitted. The ERE fund was handed a total of €855 million from the regional government, Madrid and the EU over just a decade, with more before and after. The ‘opaque’ system lacked any ‘control mechanisms’.

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