The Prosecutor’s Office has requested a sentence of 12 years of disqualification for the former mayor of Móstoles, Noelia Posse (PSOE) and for eight of her councilors in the previous legislature for an alleged crime of prevarication for the forgiveness of a debt to the company ITV Móstoles.
In its writing, to which Efe has had access, the Public Ministry understands that there is a crime of prevarication due to the damage caused to the municipal coffers when the City Council decided to forgive a debt of more than 2 million euros to the aforementioned ITV Móstoles.
This indictment comes after the Investigative Court number 1 of Móstoles, which is investigating the case, ruled in February that it agreed to continue the processing of the preliminary proceedings regarding Posse and its eight councillors, in addition to the municipal treasurer and the man himself. businessman.
In the indictment, the Prosecutor’s Office insists that the defendants “caused economic damage” to the City Council valued at 615,000 euros by agreeing by emergency means to reduce the concessionaire’s debt, the annual fee and the postponement until one year by 50%. 2040 of the rest of the debt at a rate of 30,000 euros per year.
For this reason, it proposes for both Posse and the rest of the accused councilors a sentence of 12 years of special disqualification for employment or public office and for the exercise of the right to passive suffrage, for a crime of prevarication, included in article 404 of the Penal Code.
The Public Ministry also emphasizes that the members of the municipal government made the decision to forgive the debt “despite having an unfavorable report from the auditor” who had warned about the illegality of the procedure and who also took the case to the Court of Accounts.
In addition to Posse, the former first deputy mayor David Muñoz is accused of an alleged crime of prevarication; the former Councilor for Employment and New Technologies, Rebeca Prieto; the former councilor of Security, Culture and Ecological Transition, Alejandro Martín; and the former president of the Presidency and Urban Development, María Luisa Ruiz, all of them from the PSOE.
All of them continue as councilors of the socialist group in the Móstoles City Council, with Posse herself as municipal spokesperson, once they left the municipal government after the victory of PP and Vox in the last municipal elections.
Also being investigated for this matter are the former councilors of Equality, Dolores Triviño and Beatriz Benavides, both from the PSOE, the former councilor of the Treasury and Human Resources, Aitor Perlines; and the former leader of Education and Youth, Natividad Gómez, the latter from Podemos, who have already left politics.
Both Posse and the other active councilors assured a few months ago that if an oral trial were opened against them, they would make the decision to leave, “as stated in the statutes and established by the PSOE”, although they insisted that “it was not what, his trial, the inhabitants of Móstoles demanded”.
The defense of the accused has always appealed to “the presumption of innocence”, always insisting that it was “a political dispute” and that they would continue to exercise “their right to self-defense with everything necessary, just as “Everyone who comes to it does it.”
