New try close the file for the 43 possible PSOE offices in Benidorm with contracts And salary bonusesby the accused who, already in the middle of the trial, once again maintain that the appeals had been exhausted. legal deadlines … teaching and that crimes they have prescribed. The alleged irregularities suspected were committed between 2009 and 2012.
Before sitting on the bench, there have already been at least half a dozen appeals for reforms and appeals to avoid trial, rejected by the prosecution.
The Provincial Court of Alicante is studying the request of nullity although this Tuesday the process resumes with a current session in which the eight accused – two former councilors and six municipal technicians, all with a socialist relationship or affinity – sit again on the bench.
The legal loophole they are seeking to escape justice is based on the fact that the extension of the investigation was not decided in 2017, although the private prosecution of the Professional Union of Local Police and Firefighters had requested it (SPPLB), the original complainant until Prosecutor’s Office took the case,
The judge issued an order in which the court considers “prior issues” in handling the allegations and agrees “postpone» the beginning of the «personal tests» in order to “not cause inconvenience and damage to witnesses and experts”, but later “new points will be agreed” in this trial which began on November 6.
As last news, Carmen Navarro (Human Resources Manager) resigned At witness Fernando Mahiques, who was part of the general negotiating table during this period of the mandate of the socialist mayor Agustín Navarro. And also another of the accused, Juan Ramon Martinez (Delegated Human Resources Advisor), for his part, also exempts from four witnesses that he had proposed. They are Juan Caro (from the Workers’ Commissions, promoted to head of facilities), Justo López (municipal criminologist), Bernabé Sánchez Tena (local police and appointed coordinator of social services) and Jaime Pérez Marcet (hired at that time).
The accused are confronted requests from parquet to four years and six months of prisonand also eight years and six months of disqualification for alleged continuing crimes of procrastination administrative, embezzlement And traffic of influence.
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