José Joaquín Moya, who was mayor of Bigastro between 1983 and October 2008, in particular on the 28th, when he was arrested by the Civil Guard, accepted a sentence of conformity this Thursday, following an agreement with the Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office. The other is from the articles that have been investigated in the Orihuela courts for thirty years and are about irregularities in the administration of the City Council president. The council, represented by lawyer Marcos Sánchez Adsuar, filed the accusation within the scope of the refund procedure.
Antonio Saseta, who was a secretary during those years, also reached an agreement with the prosecutor in his case, who was sentenced to 15 months in prison for the same crime. The sentence also obliges both defendants to pay compensation of 77 thousand 858 euros to the municipality’s coffers.
This Tuesday, another 4.5-year prison sentence was announced for the sale of land in sector D12 (valued at 127,000 euros), which did not reach the municipal coffers. The hearing to confirm eligibility occurred before chapter VII issued this other sentence. Last November, the Supreme Court approved an additional four-year prison sentence for embezzlement, and three more matters await trial. He was also convicted of administrative evasion in 2013.
According to the agreement reached, it was proven that José Joaquín Moya “gave the order to act for illegal purposes, taking advantage of the exercise of functions specific to his position, and in particular those related to the economic and accounting management of the council.” profit, the issuance of bills of exchange without any reason, legal action or legal relationship. The prosecution described a series of bills and amounts that it would collect for its own benefit between 2004 and 2007. 2004, one of 3,000 euros” “The City Council has no record of this being granted and there is no documentary support to justify it” (a phrase repeated for other payments). A further amount of more than 3,000 euros was cashed by Moya on 20 April It was deposited at a bank office on 2004 and deposited into an account. A fourth of 3,000 euros, which Moya also collected on 1 June 2004. And another of 3,000 euros, which Moya deposited into the account of a media outlet on 15 April. The said audiovisual company There are up to six more checks in total for: on 17 December of that year for 6,000 euros; on 2 March 2005 for 5,000 euros; on 26 April 2005 for 1,200 euros; on 8 June for 6,000 euros; on 18 July for the same amount another, one of 9,000 euros on 23 January 2006. Finally, the former mayor withdrew a bill of 64,400 euros on 25 May 2007, the decision stating that “only 42,451.5 euros of this amount were applied to the payment of Municipality bills.”
The prosecutor’s office reminds that the City Council and the hotel “did not establish commercial relations between 2004 and 2007.” José Joaquín Moya was the partner and sole director of the business enterprise. In total, the invoices sent to the communications company amount to 36,200 euros; “Without the City Council being aware of the issuance of the bills in question or the concept to which they correspond, the company declared only commercial relations with AEAT during the period in question.” 9,360.8 euros”.
The decision states that the then-mayor, “taking advantage of the performance of his duties as mayor, did not apply to the public treasury the amounts brought into effect by the effects of foreign exchange on expenses, but instead disposed of them as his own property.” may apply them “for other purposes unrelated to its public function”. The decision states that Moya was taken over two years ago in March 2001 and contributed 164,620 euros to the media company between 2003 and 2007, becoming a full partner through the hotel two months later. “The same secretary since June 2002, partner and consultant in a personal capacity since April 30, 2004, and yet in 2004, as mayor and in the performance of his duties, he ordered the media company to provide advertising services to the Orihuela City Council”. The proven facts state: “Knowing the radically illegal nature of his conduct and the arbitrariness it entailed, he ordered payments in favor of this company before services were provided, invoices were presented and approved by the authorities.” bill payments were finally approved despite the absence of the signature of the municipal technician confirming that the reflected service was effectively provided. The proven facts reproduce other payments, both in the amount of 2,000 euros, with a bearer check certified by. Within the scope of the same administrative file, at the government meeting dated 4 and 5 April 2004, “The defendant acted in this way despite being aware that his action was unlawful while acting on behalf of the council and a private company. Payments made for services not provided from municipal funds are related to the effective provision of services.” It was adopted without the need for approval of the relevant bills at government meetings requiring accreditation.
They also say: “While serving as mayor, he also served as the City Council’s payment processor; he collected numerous monies from municipal funds for his own interests during his years as the City Council’s first mayor. Bigastro’s unjustly enriching himself with the amounts he received, without allocating them to any public purpose, without later presenting the grounds for applying to the municipal interests. It reproduces a number of other small payments justified as “expenses”… ranging from very small amounts from 35 euros to 2,700 euros from 2004 to 2004 and in 2008. They amount to 96,000 euros in total and are “without justifying the application for public purposes, the relevant monetary deliveries It is a condition to which it is subject.”
The decision states that between 2004 and 2008, he used his bank card to pay for other expenses “without justifying the need or goal or that they were implemented to meet public needs.” Amounts ranging from 13,168 euros in 2004 to 8,205 euros in 2007.
What about secretary? Interestingly, almost three years after Moya’s arrest and after the PP lost the Mayor’s Office, the prosecutor’s office realized that none of the Moya expenses would have been possible without the knowledge of the municipal notary, who joined the City Council in 1999 and left office in 2011. It is in the hands of the PP led by Rosario Bañuls. “Moya was able to carry out the described actions thanks to the active and negligent behavior of Antonio Saseta, who, despite holding the position of secretary-controller of the City Council and having full knowledge of the basic functions that he was supposed to perform in office, aimed at controlling expenditures and supervising the economic and financial management of the council “It has never fulfilled its obligation to receive, examine and censor the supporting documents related to the orders given (…) nor has it carried out its procedures regarding the control of expenses. Therefore, the improper use and destruction of public uses has been undertaken and accepted”.