During the trial held by the Third Chamber of the Court of Seville against the former general director of the Andalusian Foundation Training and Employment Fund (Faffe) Fernando Villén and the former mayor of Lebrija Antonio Torres García (PSOE), for alleged prevarication and embezzlement in the “arbitrary” hiring of the aforementioned former first mayor; A former director of the entity testified this Wednesday that He only saw Torres García in the office “once.”
This witness explained that she worked at Faffe from 2003 to 2011, approximately three years. at the Seville headquarters as director of the territorial development sector and as many years as provincial director of the Huelva entity.
To the questions of Anti-corruption prosecutor Fernando Sotothis witness explained that as zone director, she attended management committees, to which the heads of each of the Faffe directorates were convened.
In this sense, in the context in which, according to the investigation, Fernando Villén would have created the Directorate of External Relations within Faffe To attribute such an allegedly fictitious area to the former socialist mayor of Lebrija, this witness declared that she does not remember ever seeing Torres García in the sessions of the management committees.
Furthermore, she assured that she had only seen the former mayor of Lebrija “once” in the Faffe facilities, to which, as she said verbatim, she asked: “Who is this man?”.
Also to the prosecutor’s questions Fernando Soto, this former director of Faffe, said she did not know what functions or tasks would have been the position of municipal resources manager that would have been entrusted to Torres García within Faffe.
The defendants testify Thursday
The trial will likely face a key day this Thursday, since the appearance of the two accused is in principle scheduled for that day, indicated the former Technical General Director of Faffe Fernando Villén and former socialist mayor of Lebrija Antonio Torres Garcíawho at the start of the hearing asked to testify at the end, an aspect authorized by the court.
According to the order transforming the proceedings into abbreviated proceedings in this case, according to Antonio Torres lost the Lebrija town hall in the 2003 municipal elections after 24 years in powerwould have asked the technical general director at the time of the Andalusian Training and Employment Fund for his “placement with Faffe, to which Villén accepted, promoting in his favor a new management position, which in reality did not exist, which would satisfy the hiring conditions “indefinite leave and salary requested” by the former socialist mayor of Lebrija.
All this, despite the fact that Torres García “lacked training and skills to perform functions corresponding to this professional level“from the manager.
Thus, and according to the investigating judge, the former mayor of Lebrija “He was hired on July 1, 2003 with a temporary contractextended and permanent from December 1, 2004, as an administrator, with a total remuneration of 46,750 euros per year, being registered as an employee with Faffe until his termination of employment and his integration in May 2011 into the Service Andalusian Employment (SAE).
Arbitrary hiring
The hiring, according to the investigating judge, took place, “without any process of evaluation or contrast of the aptitude or suitability of the subject to be hired“, that is to say “in an unfair and arbitrary manner, in disregard of the hiring procedures to which Faffe had to comply, without any participation of other possible candidates for the position, and in a manner contrary to the general principles of publicity , objectivity, impartiality, equality of opportunity, merit and capacity that would govern said selection and hiring process, in accordance with the regulations themselves.
“There is no documentation indicating minimal compliance with the requirements and the budgets which govern the selection and hiring of staff, whether technical or managerial, by a public foundation like Faffe”, determines the investigating judge.
Added to this, as the judge specifies in the order, that the administrative organization chart of Faffe “did not envisage any management position to which” the former mayor indicted could access, so that the other warned “came to create a ‘hoc announcement’ one”, which he called the Directorate of External Relations”, a department which “was in fact non-existent, so that it lacked structure, functions and effective content; without physical headquarters, no offices, no desks, no assigned staff.
“I DIDN’T EVEN GO TO THE FOUNDATION HEADQUARTERS”
Indeed, the judge warns that the former mayor “did not even go to the foundation’s headquarters, nor did he carry out any work (he was unknown to the other workers and managers), although he obtained business or presentation cards”, so that “The limited activity carried out, limited to specific contacts with a politician or an authority, was carried out “always” from his home “and with his own means, computer and account generic and free messaging service.
