He businessman Rafael Gómez broke the media retreat in which it takes years to intervene this Friday in the program’everything is a lie‘, by Quatre. He did so on the occasion of the death of Julián Muñoz, one of the greatest representatives of the corruption that engulfed Marbella City Hall, of which he became mayor. Gómez sat on the bench in the macrocause of ‘Malaysian operation‘, which dealt with this corruption.
He businessman from Cordoba He was sentenced to six months in prison replaced by a sentence fine of 3,650 euros plus 150,000 euros fine. It was considered proven that in 2004 he handed over 300,000 euros to José Antonio Roca, the mastermind of the plot, so that he would turn a blind eye to him in order to obtain an exit on a noble street in Marbella for the offices of its companies. .
‘Sandokancame back to the fore this week after Julián Muñoz, in a posthumous interviewcharged with many names that appeared in “Operation Malaysia,” but removed Rafael Gómez from that list.
Who became leader of the municipal opposition of Córdoba with his UCOR party, It appeared this Friday in a surprising way In ‘everything is a lie‘. Asked about his relationship with Muñoz, Gómez indicated that he had only seen him twice.
Rafael Gómez: “I told him: “Listen, Julián [Muñoz] I’m not interested in putting Isabel [Pantoja] at the Tivoli. The park theater was small and attracted few people.
And in one of them, this one asked him to hire his partnerthe singer Isabelle Pantoja. It was, ‘Sandokán’ remembers, during the fish dinner on the Costa del Sol, and he came up to me saying: “Rafael, listen, I would like to see if you put Pantoja, Isabelsing in the Tivoli [el parque de atracciones era de su propiedad]“. And I answered him: “Look, Julian, I’m not interested. put it in since what she’s going to charge, I don’t even know what she’s going to charge… But I don’t want to take her, I don’t want to take her to Tivoli, since there’s no has no money earned there to pay Pantoja.
When asked from the set if it was the hidden of the famous singer, Gómez showed that innate instinct he always had for business: “It’s not about that. He The Tivoli Theater is a small space and she I was going to bring a few people. In other words, few people were going to come see him. So, I wasn’t interested in bringing him. Nothing else.” “In business, you can’t do something knowing you’re going to lose money,” he said.
Charges against Villarejo
He volcanic character of Gómezthis also came to light when he was asked about his sentence for “Operation Malaysia”. He a businessman blamed the famous former commissioner José Manuel Villarejo to “be on the list” for this case.
He assured that this happened during a failure of the land sale operation in Cordoba. “I was going to buy land in Villarejo that was not buildable. He told me 17 million. And I agreed with him that the payment would be made in three years, because I had to place this rustic land in good urban planning. He said yes,” he explained.
But, he continued, six months passed, “we met in Torremolinos in a restaurant.” “And I told him that the next day we could sign title deeds and he told me he wouldn’t sign until I paid him the last peseta. AND so I decided not to buy them», added the Cordovan businessman.
He said that after this episode he received a call from a police official warning him that if he did not buy the land from Villarejo there would be consequences. Gómez accused the former commissioner of carrying out different actions pressure to end Malaysia case. For example, he assured that Villarejo had pressured Roca to involve him.
