The Provincial Court of Seville sentenced three years in prison and a fine of 50 million euros to the former secretary general of the UGT-A Francisco Fernández Sevilla, whom he considers to be the author of a crime of fraud with subsidies from the Junta de Andalucía which should have been used for training courses for the unemployed, but who They ended up financing union activities.
In total, they deviated 40.6 million euros, According to the judgment, notified today Wednesday, it is not final and may be the subject of an appeal to the Supreme Court.
The court, which applies the mitigation of unjustified delays in these crimes, also imposes on the former Secretary General the loss of the possibility of obtaining subsidies or public aid and the right to benefit from tax advantages or incentives or social security for a period of four years. and six months.
With Fernández Sevilla they are Three other former union leaders sentenced: former deputy secretary general of the UGT-A administration Federico F.; the former secretary of economic management of the union María C., and the former CEO of the Soralpe entity Enrique G., while also condemning the former Head of purchasing department by UGT-A Dolores S.,.
However, in the latter case, the conviction is for complicity in the aforementioned crimes and imposes six months and two days in prison, a fine of 25 million euros and the loss of the possibility of obtaining subsidies or public aid and of the right to benefit from tax or social advantages or incentives for a period of one and a half years.
Likewise, in matters of civil liability, the court sentences the five former leaders of the union to jointly compensate the Junta de Andalucía for an amount of 40,620,256.43 euros -the four convicted as perpetrators of the crimes will have to pay 99% of this amount, and the woman convicted as an accomplice to 1%, and in the alternative with the convicted as perpetrators within the limit of 4,288,707.74 euros-, which corresponds to the total amount allegedly defrauded.
In addition, it declares the subsidiary civil liability of the UGT-A for the total amount.
