THE Court of Seville The trial of the former director general of the Faffe Fernando Villenthe socialist convicted of wasting more than 32,000 euros in brothels public money, to tap into the entity former mayor of Lebrija, Antoine Torres (PSOE), who occupied a “non-existent” management position, without offices or offices, and took 500,000 euros carry out a fictitious task without leaving the house.
This Wednesday a former director of Faffe who assured that I only saw “once” in Torres in the entity’s facilities and requested: “Who is this man?”. The witness explained that she worked at Faffe from 2003 to 2011, about three years at the Seville headquarters, as director of territorial development, and as many years in Huelva as provincial director of the entity. As zone director, she attends management committees, to which the heads of each of the Faffe departments are convened. But no sign of Torres. Furthermore, when questioned by the prosecutor, the former director stated that she did not know what functions or tasks were entrusted to Torres within the Faffe (municipal resources manager).
THE Anti-corruption prosecution ask four years in prison For Villen for an alleged offense of embezzlement and a ten-year special ban for alleged embezzlement. For Towers claim claim two and a half years in prison for embezzlement and four years’ ban for prevarication.
Faffe’s former manager is accused of illegally placing Torres after losing his Lebrija Mayor’s Office in the municipal elections of 2003, after 24 years in power.
According to investigating judge No. 6 of Seville, José Ignacio Vilaplana, the administrative organization chart of the Faffe “did not envisage any management position” to which Torres could access, which is why Villén created one “ad hoc that he called External Relations Department“.
According to the car, this apartment was actually “non-existent” and it lacked “structure and functions”, so it had no “physical headquarters, offices, offices or staff”. Additionally, Torres “lacked training and skills assume functions corresponding to said professional level of manager.
Torres joined Faffe on July 1 of the same year with a temporary contract, becoming permanent a year and a half later, now as manager, with a total remuneration of 46,750 euros per year. He remained registered as an employee until the dissolution of Faffe and his integration in May 2011 into the Andalusian Employment Service (SAE). During these years he perceived a total of 491,203.03 eurosbut “he did not even go to the foundation’s headquarters or carry out any work”, being completely “stranger” to the other workers and managers, as the judge noted and the witness confirmed this. Wednesday.
Trip to Peru and a great trip to Seville
Last week, another witness (Juan Carlos Díaz Matías, former director of permanent structures of Faffe) also stated that He never saw Torres “physically” at the company’s headquarters, but he dealt with him twice.
The first, an “in person” contact of approximately “15 or 20 minutes”, since Torres was promoting an action linked to the academic field with the aim of attracting European funds for the project, even if the idea was ultimately not not “much progress”.
On the second occasion, his organizational leader (Joaquín Alberto Morales) told him that the Spanish Foreign Cooperation Agency I was looking for profiles for Spanish participation in a forum celebrate in Peru. His superior asked him to contact Torres because of his “municipal experience” and given that his career “corresponded” to the “profile” sought.
According to what he said, he limited himself to “resending” the email to Torres García, confirming that his “profile coincided” with the one requested by the Spanish Foreign Cooperation Agency, and Torres He traveled to Peru as a “guest,” using state funds.to participate in said forum with a “conference”.
With this half a million euros earned in eight years, which is added to the public salary he received for almost a quarter of a century as mayor, the socialist Torres bought a step of 156 meters places in the center of Seville evaluated in the caseI 300,000 eurosas revealed by OKDIARIO Andalucía. He did so only a year after joining Faffe.
The trial will face a key day this Thursdaysince the appearance of the two accusedwho at the start of the hearing asked to testify at the end, an aspect authorized by the court.
