The Provincial Court of Alicante imposed a deposit of 12,000 euros to the Professional Union of Local Police and Firefighters (SPPLB) to exercise the popular action in the case of the alleged 43 PSOE sales points in Benidorm between … 2009 and 2012.
Sources from this union assured ABC that they will “access to this required by the Court” this order, even if they will “present resource (of supplication), because an excessive sum is requested, four times more than in the case of Begoña Gomez“. Until now, they were private prosecutors in the case, a condition in which they are not recognized as “directly harmed” by the crimes investigated, of administrative prevarication, embezzlement of public funds and influence peddling.
The SPPLB had discovered this affair with the initial complaint, then assumed in view of the evidence detected by the prosecution, which requested during the trial sorrows of eight years and six months in prison, and six years and six months of prohibition for the eight accusedtwo councilors and six union members and municipal technicians.
These union representatives consider themselves aggrieved by the waste of funds from the public treasury at the time with strict spending standards stipulated by the Ministry of Finance in the midst of the crisis, which is stipulated in 4.5 million of euros. But the defendants’ defenses have questioned this status and now the Provincial Court is considering this “precedent issue” in part due to a “lack of legitimacy.”
The amount imposed for the deposit (12,000 euros) quadruples that of 3,000 set in other similar cases, without going further, due to the media impact and being currently topical, that of Begoña Gómez, wife of the President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, as highlighted by the SPPLB. In the case of this other union –Clean hands– must devote this significantly lower amount to the exercise as a popular action.
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