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Posts Tagged ‘corruption’

Son of a…. El Ejido owes over €90,000,000 claims P.P.

Posted Thursday, November 13th, 2008

The P.P. claims that the town hall of El Ejido is so badly managed that it has ended up with debts of over €90,000,000 (90 million euros). Or, 15 thousand million pesetas in old money.
Jose Francisco Riviera, spokeperson for the P.P. (Partido Popular) Party in El Ejido, claims that the town hall has spent more [...]

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Jobs for the boys - the asesor scandel

Posted Wednesday, November 12th, 2008

Sit back my children and allow me to regale you with a tale of intrigue, friendship, backhanders and corruption, as it appears many of you don’t know about it.
During the end of summer, a story broke about how the Junta (which has been controlled since the transition to democracy unopposed by the PSOE party, and [...]

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Roquetas del Mar wants to build on protected natural spaces

Posted Monday, November 10th, 2008

Roquetas del Mar town hall has announced that it will try to overturn a ruling on “Las Salinas”, which is the only undeveloped part of the Roquetas beach front. “Las Salinas” has been declared an area of the Public Domain due to it’s importance for local wildlife; Roquetas town hall will join forces with local [...]

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PSOE Almería members to show personal assets on webpages

Posted Monday, October 27th, 2008

PSOE Almería have agreed to order all elected PSOE councillors to display their personal wealth, salary and assets on their personal webpage / blog, or if they don’t have one, on the central PSOE webpage or townhall webpage.
This is to encourage more transparency in public office, and is along lines already agreed by other PSOE [...]

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24 now cautioned in Zurgena

Posted Thursday, April 17th, 2008

The Guardia Civil have now cautioned 24 people in Zurgena under Operation “Costurero”, an investigation into alleged corruption and official bribery related to illegal building in the municipality.
Three of them are councillors for the PSOE and PP parties, who are accused of misuse of public power (prevaricacion) having voted for these illegal builds. They have issued [...]

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Zurgena corruption scandal

Posted Thursday, April 3rd, 2008

 Much excitement today as the news broke of the arrests of the mayor of Zurgena, Candido Trabalon, the Councilman in charge of Urbanisations, Manuel Tijeras, the town architect, an associate of the town architect, the owner of “New Horizon Villas” (according to “El Pais”) and Tomas Zurano, president of the “Constructores Andaluces de Obra Publica” [...]

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