THE Malaga Court The second and final session of the trial of Marriage case. The former mayor socialist from Ronda (Málaga) Teresa Valdenebro faces three years in prison for manipulation of the marriage certificate of the daughter of a PSOE advisor so that the bride, a nurse by profession, has some paid leave by the Andalusian Health Service (SAS).
The prosecution requests the same sentence for the father of the bride, the former mayor José María Jimenezand two years in prison for his daughter Laura. The three are accused of offense of falsification of a public documentin medial competition with an offense of fraud, for manipulation of the marriage date.
The ceremony, presided over by the mayor herself, took place on June 17, 2017. Four days later, on the 21st, Laura had to go to work at the Serranía de Ronda Hospital, where her contract began. But the marriage certificate was altered: according to the documents, the marriage took place on Wednesday the 21st and not Saturday the 17th. Thanks to this maneuver, Laura was able to leave. honeymoon enjoy a marriage license by the SASwithout having to give up the honeymoon or the employment contract.
This Monday, in her statement before the second section of the court, the former mayor of Ronda denied the facts and proposed the same version as the one supported until now: that I didn’t know anything of the change of date and that the wedding day he didn’t realize that the date of the report was incorrect. His defense requested acquittal.
Furthermore, the civil servants which they declared as witnesses At the first hearing of the trial, they admitted to changing the wedding date because they thought the marriage had been altered, but they did not know it was a so-called fraud.
In your writing the initial qualificationthe prosecution accused the three defendants of the continuous offense of falsification of a public document, in conjunction with an offense of fraud, and requested a sentence of six years in prison for each of them.
Today, in its final conclusions, the Public Prosecutor’s Office has eliminated the criminal continuity and recognized the mitigating of unjustified delays for the five postponements who underwent the trial before arriving at the trial, that is why he reduces the sentence request for the former mayor and the former councilor (three years and one day in prison and three years of ban from public service ), as well as for the girlfriend (two years in prison).
