The former mayor of Marbella Julián Muñoz is registered since last Sunday at the HC hospital in this city of Malaga, a center where he went urgently and where he is being treated, as confirmed by his wife, Mayte Zaldívar.
The former advisor arrived accompanied by his family and his the health condition is delicatealthough he is in good hands, his wife said at the hospital gates. “It’s taking longer than expected,” Zaldívar told the press, explaining that they had told him to be “calm,” although at the moment they did not have a date scheduled for him to be released and able to return home.
Muñoz, who will be 77 in November, suffers from cancer For several years he has suffered from several heart attacks and strokes and sugar has made him blind in one eye, as the former mayor himself recently explained in a television interview.
Muñoz’s political career, initially affiliated with the PSOE and then integrated into the Independent Liberal Group (GIL), was marked by his controversial management at the head of the Marbella town hall after succeeding Jesus Gil, whose right-hand man he became.
Arrested in July 2006 for the urban corruption plot uncovered in the “Malaysia affair”, he was convicted in several proceedings for corruption offences, embezzlement of public funds and prevarication related to the granting of illegal licenses during the municipal governments of the GIL. His deteriorating health condition prevents him from going to prison, but he has been taken to hospital several times, which raises fears of a fatal outcome.
