What the outlet published · Sentence 17
“El empresario llegó a declarar como investigado.”
Translation · ES
The businessman went on to testify as a formal suspect.
What this claims, in our words
PROCEDURAL STATUS: he testified as a formal suspect. A formal suspect is not a convicted person; it is the status of someone testifying in an open investigation.
What the other side says
Being questioned as an investigado, if that is the correct procedural status, is not a conviction and does not establish that any crime has been committed. Spanish criminal procedure protects the presumption of innocence. The article should therefore report the precise procedural status without allowing readers to confuse an investigation with guilt.
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