The Public Prosecutor's Office has requested 7 years in prison for the mayor of Albox, Francisco Torrecillas and for the councillor José Campoy, for the concreting on one side of the rambla. The prosecutor considers that they incurred an alleged crime against the planning laws, another for alleged prevarication and a third for alleged embezzlement of public funds.
The Prosecutor's Office requests two years in prison for the first and five years for the embezzlement. He also asks the court for disqualification penalties for public office or employment that add up to a total of 27 years. In his brief, the prosecutor states that in July 2017,Torrecillas and Campoy decided to "pave" knowing "that the rambla is part of the public hydraulic domain" so "it required authorization from the Board's Department of the Environment" although "they thought that the institution would not grant it", so which was carried out “without issuing any resolution or processing an administrative file.”
Compensation
The brief also refers to the procedure followed later to "expand the construction", for which it believes that "as they knew that the total amount of the concrete would exceed the €18,000 set as the limit of the minor supply contract, they decided to "disguise the nature of the contract by entering into a work contract” despite the fact that the company “would not carry out any work but would limit itself to supplying concrete and the work would be carried out by municipal workers”.
Even so, the prosecutor acknowledges that the municipal comptroller "signed the contract, authorized the expenditure and payment without making any objections" despite "knowing" a good part of the facts described, for which he also requests five years of disqualification for him. . The damage caused to the City Council according to the Prosecutor's Office is €65,842, an amount that coincides with the compensation that the prosecutor asks them to pay to the City Council. Despite the prosecutor's brief, the process has not yet been seen for sentencing , so these requests do not have to be the ones that are finally issued.
