mayor of (Málaga, 78,413 inhabitants) by the Popular Party since 2011, has been accused of an alleged crime of malleber of flows by hiring “intimate” friend as a municipal advisor for six weeks “without having been accredited to reach any activity”, according to a order from the Court of First Instance and Instruction number 5 of the Malaga town. The document, to which the country has had access and that goes online to the report that the Prosecutor’s Office issued last week, agrees that the case continues for the celebration of a trial before a popular jury and quotes the councilor as investigated on June 4. On that date, both the Fiscal Ministry and the popular accusations exercised by PSOE and Vox will also appear. Given the decision, something that García Urbano has already reported that he will do.
The previous proceedings for the alleged crime of embezzlement originated in a previous procedure born when a local police, municipal official, between the years 2022 and 2023. In the case they declared the councilor, the complainant himself and the couple of this, CPB was she who said that he had been hired by the councilor without having actually done any work. . But from those words of the witness a second cause was born, in which a possible embezzlement of flows was investigated, so a phase of testimony and documentary evidence began.
Now, the judicial order signed by Judge Íñigo Villar on Tuesday highlights that of the proceedings practiced since then “it is clearly emerged” that García Urbano “taking advantage of his status as mayor” hired CPB with the purpose of “providing an improvement or economic help.” The document emphasizes that with it it maintained an “intimate relationship of friendship” and that it was hired for an advisor square assigned to the External Control Area of the City of Estepona for the realization of “special advice” work.
The appointment was made through a mayor’s decree dated February 13, 2023, although the position ceased six weeks later, on March 31, 2023. During that time, the woman received a first payroll of 1,634 euros net and a second of 3,642 euros “without it has been accredited that it came to perform any activity derived from this appointment.”
The judge provides that the procedure continue to trial before a popular jury and summons García Urbano to appear as investigated on June 4. His defense, that yes, has shown security that the procedure “will not continue advancing” since “it lacks foundation” and that the City Council itself has already given the Court all the required documentation “that corroborates that there is no crime or irregularity in any of the contracts carried out by the Consistory since José María García Urban File.
“Political campaign”
The same sources say that the defense also trusts that the letter will be taking into account and that the actions will be dismissed “because the complaint is the result of a political campaign that PSOE and Vox are making in the courts with the sole objective of damaging the personal image and the political career of the councilor,” according to municipal sources. “Both political formations have decided to join in this infamous campaign, and even Vox has appeared in the procedure with the same lawyer as the complainants, which shows the collusion between all of them with the only and clear spurious purpose of damaging the figure of the mayor,” insists the same sources.
García Urbano has been mayor of Estepona since 2011. who made him the most voted councilor among the municipalities of more than 50,000 inhabitants. Since then the city has revolutionized with great projects such as the pedestrianization of a hundred streets or the renewal of the Paseo Marítimo. “It is the perfect example that the Popular Party is a party, above all, of managers,” Elías Bendodo told him in 2019, when the current general coordinator of the Popular Party was from the popular Malaga and who proposed García Urbano in 2008 to lead the candidacy for the popular when until then had been affiliated with the Andalusian party.
