Turns it off Andalusian Foundation Training and Employment Fund (Faffe) He is best known for the trial surrounding his box bwhich ended his director (Fernando Villen) sentenced to six years in prison spend more than 30,000 euros of public money in brothels. This trial ended last year, but the director come back now at the dock.
He will do this to elucidate how the former socialist mayor of Lebrija, Antonio Torresfirst mayor of the commune (1978-2003) and professional psychologist, he was able to win almost half a million euros for eight consecutive years – exactly 491,203.03 euros – occupying a position specially created for him at Faffe, according to the prosecution.
He will have to answer for him Villenthen director, as the creator of this position and employment consultant, who came to be considered an “employee ghost“. According to the anti-corruption prosecutor, this happened “irregular use of public funds“and the towers”He received a public salary from Faffe without doing anything, from home and without working“.
The prosecution indicts them both crimes of prevarication and embezzlement derived from an “unfair and arbitrary” hiring, in reference to Torres’ work upon leaving Lebrija town hall. According to Anticorrupción, the work was designed manner contrary to the principles of equality, merit and ability and for the sole “personal and political affinity and connection“between the two of us.
In the instruction order, the judge specified that “nI didn’t even go to the foundation’s headquarters or work. He was unknown to other workers and managersalthough business or presentation cards were obtained.
At the mayor’s office
His time on the Municipal Council for 24 years also brought a lot. On his own website, still active, on which he looks back on his life and talks about himself in the third person, he talks about their moral and political proximity with the most disadvantaged social classes. It also includes his resume, bachelor’s degree, master’s degree and other positions, but at no point does he discuss his time with the late Faffe.
Additionally, Antonio TorresAnd comes to attribute the creation of Rural Employment Plan (former PER) in Andalusia and Extremadura “as a transformative investment for people.”
“We can say that it was invented in Lebrija based on a proposal from the Lebrija City Hall presented in 1983 to the Junta de Andalucía and the Spanish government,” indicates the former mayor of the aforementioned municipality.
Torres summarizes this in an episode covered by the press of the time. It happened on Wednesday March 21, 1984 when, now first mayor of his commune, He locked himself with fifty day laborers in the offices of the National Employment Institute. of the Andalusian capital.
The reason was a protest against the delays in the arrival of funds for the payment of the rural employment subsidy, a claim that will become effective two years lateras published by ABC in its edition the next day.
However, Decades after these confinements of the 80s, Torres seemed to forget the closeness he maintained at the time with the disadvantaged by not showing up for work. A job in the foundation which was created, precisely, to fight against unemployment by providing training.
At the end of his term at town hall, according to the investigating judge, he asked the then general director of Faffe to move him, which Villén accepted. For this he promoted in his favor “a new management position, which in reality does not exist“, despite the fact that he “lacked the necessary training and skills to perform functions corresponding to said professional level.”
Concretely, he was hired on July 1, 2003 with a temporary contract, extended and made permanent on December 1 of the following year. There they made him director. His remuneration at the time was 46,750 euros per year, which he maintained until the extinction of Faffe and his integration in May 2011 into the Andalusian Employment Service (SAE).
The trial will continue over several sessions in October. Already in the first case, the defense lawyers denounced that the fundamental rights of their clients had been violated.
Violation of rights
The defense lawyers, Adolfo Cuéllar And Pablo Ollerowarned that the cause arose from “prospective investigation, unequal treatment and punitive discrimination.”
All this in the sense that, in a context of great “growth of the parallel administration” in the Junta de Andalucía, the investigations into the employees incorporated into the Faffe were curiously oriented towards people active within the PSOE.
From the rest of around 200 employees incorporated in Faffe, according to one of the lawyers, “no one asked for it”. And those responsible for the entity could sit on the bench again.
Another investigating court in Seville, for its part, continues to investigate whether it worked almost as well a placement agency for family members, friends and former leaders of the Andalusian PSOE. However, some cases have expired, such as that of the former cultural advisor to Jerez City Hall. Francisco Camas and the former mayor of the Sevillian town of Montellano Francisco Aguilera.
The prosecutor himself assured that, unlike Torres, both yes they were going to work with “more or less performance”although he recalled that his colleagues at the time said that he devoted himself to “sleeping and reading the press” during the workday.
For lawyer Alfonso Martínez Escribano, who represents the PP in this case, fundamental rights have not been violated. The main thing for the lawyer is to demonstrate whether or not Antonio Torres provided his services to the foundation and whether or not there was illegal hiring.
In total, the prosecution asks the former director of Faffe four years in prison and ten years of ban And two and a half years in prison for the former mayor of Lebrija who, at the time, as he continues to say on his website, felt very close to the most disadvantaged social classes.
