They ask for 13 and a half years in prison for the former president of Murcia for the Nursery case
The Murcia Anti-Corruption Prosecutor's Office has requested sentences totaling 13 and a half years in prison and 36 special disqualification for employment or public office for the former regional president Pedro Antonio Sánchez (PP) in what is known as the Nursery case of alleged illegal construction of a children's center and another for women when he was mayor of Puerto Lumbreras.
The prosecutor's indictment, to which Efe has had access, indicates that Sánchez allegedly committed various irregularities around these projects that could constitute the crimes of prevarication, embezzlement of public funds, falsehood in public documents and against land use planning.. According to the public ministry, the former regional president allegedly made verbal orders, divided projects and approved them without complying with the formalities required by law..
The prosecutor's office added that it would have incurred in the continued crime of falsifying a public document in the act of rethinking the works, the issuance of certifications and the request for reports for the extension of deadlines referring to the subsidies received. It would have incurred in embezzlement of public funds for the alleged payment of extra costs and payment of invoices that would not respond to work actually carried out and in an offense against land use planning for approving construction projects above the maximum buildable area.
Along with Pedro Antonio Sánchez, the accidental secretary of the consistory, the architect hired by it, the controller and several municipal technicians and managers of construction companies, among others, also appear as defendants..