Reuters, 13/02 15:56 CET
Stock image of Assumpta Escarp. EFE / File
Sabadell (Barcelona), February 13 ( EFE ) .- The judge investigating the Mercury of alleged corruption and influence peddling case, Beatriz Faura, has accused the secretary of organization of PSC , Assumpta Escarp, eight former officials of the Federation of Municipalities of Catalonia, of ICV , ERC , PPC and PSC , for the gift Watch this entity.
Escarp is imputed by the separate part of the case relating to gift watches worth 190 euros per unit for a total of 70 members of the leadership of the FMC , who left office in 2011.
The research suggests that the clocks were paid a budgetary allocations for education, so the accused of embezzling is accused public funds.
Along with Escarp, the holder of the Court number 1 Sabadell called as defendants eight former officials of the FMC , and they must testify the coming days 2 and 3 March.
Specifically it is the also socialist Miquel Àguila, former mayor of Balaguer (Lleida), Helena Arribas, exalcaldesa of El Vendrell (Tarragona), and Conxita Campoy, mayor of Malgrat de Mar (Barcelona).
When listing Toni Morral (ICV-EUiA), former mayor of Cerdanyola del Vallès (Barcelona), Pere Muñoz ( add ERC ), former mayor of Flix (Tarragona)), Victor Ros ( PPC ), former mayor of Sant Andreu de Llevaneres (Barcelona), Antoni Soy ( ERC ), former mayor of Argentona and former Secretary General of Industry of the Generalitat, and Juan Antonio Vázquez ( PSC ), former mayor of Sant Feliu de Llobregat (Barcelona).
Speaking to The Network and in relation to other issues in the case Mercury, the leader of PSC , Miquel Iceta, has indicated that councilors of his party accused in the framework of this investigation for allegedly irregular diets were no can do “no blame” because, in his view, what they did in the FMC was “absolutely legal”.
“In the worst case we are talking about an administrative error, which we believe has not been given,” he added.
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