After more than a decade of delays and several postponed trials, the Malaga Court took over this Thursday the third piece of the Manilva affair to pursue the alleged irregularities in this municipality during the legislature of former mayor Antonia Muñoz (IU)Already sentenced to knit a massive plugin network from which they benefited 749 people. His successor will also sit on the bench, Mario Jiménez (Manilva Commitment).
The first section of the Court pursues the alleged irregularities in the transfer of municipal funds to the residential planning entity The fact between 2009 and 2012. In total, 217,159.67 euros. The prosecution accuses both prevarication and embezzlement.
According to the indictment of the Public Prosecutor’s Office, the Town Hall embezzled the money “in full knowledge of its illegality and despite the opposition of the Municipal Treasury, the Intervention and the Social Security Treasury.” Muñoz and the local board of directors, of which Jiménez was a member, ordered a series of payment order operations “for unbudgeted expenses” that the mayor at the time approved by decree.
The public prosecutor requests eight years in prison for Muñoz and four years in prison and 17 years of ban for Jiménez. The Town Hall’s legal advisor, Aitor Menoyo, faces seven years in prison.
Munoz’s story
Muñoz was the first woman to serve as municipal councilor in Manilva. She was also the first female mayor. Throughout his six years in power (2007-13) He transformed his office into placement agency. It directly connected 749 neighbors and relatives, including his sister and daughter-in-lawwhom he hired as municipal councilors.
The former mayor used two municipal companies apparently independent, the Manilva Foundation for Development (Funmades) and the Manilva Sports Society, created for the sole purpose of signing employment contracts, bypassing legal procedures. The two companies had different headquarters and staff outside the local government, but the links with the municipal council were such that the Manilva Sports Society used the same seal and same phone of contact than the consistory.
The objective of the discretionary files, according to the prosecution, was to “create a clientelist network of voters “This would guarantee the permanence in power of the party in power at that time.” Muñoz alleged inexperience in function, united with “inertia” this was followed in the city by hiring “from previous companies”. The Malaga court sentenced her in 2022 has nine years of disqualification special for any employment or public function as the author of a continuous crime of procrastination.
Before, in 2020, was detained to be part of a network dedicated to launder money through real estate investments. The former mayor is still immersed in another cause for awarding municipal contracts, among others, to her husband’s companies.
