HE Xixona Popular Party pay 96,960 euros for election campaign 2007 to reaffirm the candidate’s position, Rosa María Verduon the contrary The party account “never exceeded 6,000 or 7,000 euros”, the councillor’s secretary for nine years, testified as a witness in the Azud case. MCCA’s appearance before the agents Civil Guard Central Operations Unit (UCO) It happened last March 1. The transcript was included in the Azud case, along with other statements from witnesses and investigators.
Xixona mayor’s secretary is also with the councilman Authorized person on the PP account From Xixona. It therefore declares that the local PP cannot in any case cover the payment of 96,960.17 euros, the cost of the 2007 election events, “since the maximum balance offered by the current account of the Xixona PP is around 6,000”. 7,000 euros.
Verdú, who was investigated in the Azud case, and He exercised his right not to disclose When he was summoned to the 13th Court of Inquiry in 2007, he was interested in reconfirming the mayoralty he had held since 1999. That’s why that election year he told his secretary “not to worry” about election expenses, which “he (the mayor) will handle.”. The company that campaigned for Xixona’s PP in 2007 was Engloba. AND The invoices were allegedly paid by businessman Jaime Febrer, who is also being investigated in the Azud case..
Until that year, “Party members themselves [Popular] was responsible for running election campaigns, but this changed in the May 2007 campaign, as They also worked at an advertising company in Valencia“, according to the secretary of the mayor of Xixona, referring to Engloba.
The witness did not recall any payments from Xixona’s PP accounts to Engloba for the 96,960 euros spent on the 2007 election campaign. “I don’t remember, but in any case any extraordinary payments would be ordered by the mayorand also two signatures were required to make the payments, the mayor’s signature and my own,” he declared to the UCO agents.
Source: Informacion
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