The trial aimed at clarifying alleged irregular hiring in the defunct Andalusian Fund for Training and Employment Foundation (Faffe) held a new session this Tuesday.
This foundation is best known for the lawsuit surrounding its B box, which ended with its director Fernando Villen sentenced to six years in prison for spending more than 30,000 euros of public money in brothels.
In this session, Juan Carlos Diaz Matíaswho was director of permanent structures at Faffe, investigated in most of this macro-affair, testified as a witness.
This former director indicated during the trial that he had not “physically” seen the former senior civil servant and former mayor of Lebrija in the Faffe facilities. Antonio Torres. Not even on management committees, but yes He went on a work trip to Peru as a guest.using public funds, to participate in a forum as a speaker.
It is precisely in this trial that the court wants to elucidate how he was able to win almost half a million euros in eight consecutive years – exactly 491,203.03 euros – occupying a position specially created for him within the Faffe without going to workaccording to the prosecution.
He admitted to having only had contact with him.twice” with the former mayor for reasons related to the role of both in the Faffe. One was in person for about “15 or 20 minutes” because he was promoting an action related to the academic field with the aim of attracting European funds for the project, yes, the idea ultimately did not have “many trips”.
On the second occasion, as he detailed, his organizational head, Joaquín Alberto Morales, told him that the Spanish Foreign Cooperation Agency I was looking for profiles for Spanish participation in a forum to be held in Peru in relation to local entities and associations.
To do this, he asked him to contact Torres given his “municipal experience” and that his background “corresponded” to the “profile” sought. To do this, he claims to have limited himself to sending said email to Torres García, confirming that his profile corresponded to that requested.
On the other hand, according to the publications ABCon the hard drive of the Andalusian Employment Service (SAE) intervened by the Court of Instruction number 6 of Seville, The email accounts of the main officials “were reportedly emptied” before submission to the UCO, the unit responsible for preparing the report.
Still in the same report, the UCO reveals that the foundation’s human resources managers gave instructions to recruit a “list of people close to socialist positions mentioned in an email that they ordered to be destroyed.”
During this same session, the court determined that It will be October 10 when the two accused will appearwho had asked to testify at the end of the trial and not at the beginning.
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.
