Mónica Lorente (PP), the former Mayor of Orihuela, and two Popular Party councillors from 2007 to 2011, will appear in court on Thursday, February 4th, on charges of alleged fraud in the distribution of subsidies to Orihuela CF totalling more than 800,000 euros.
According to the Superior Court of Justice of the Valencian Community (TSJCV), the trial will begin this Thursday at 9:30 a.m. in the Seventh Section of the Provincial Court of Alicante, located in Elche, and will continue on the 12th, 19th, and 26th of this month.
In addition to Lorente and the two former councillors, a municipal technician and auditor, as well as two former presidents and a former secretary of Orihuela CF, are charged with alleged irregularities in the processing, resolution, payment, and expenditure of city council subsidies to the club during the 2007-08 and 2008-09 seasons.
According to the Prosecutor’s Office, these subsidies resulted in a loss of 824,000 euros to the public coffers, and the political leaders of the corporation at the time accused in this procedure used this conduct to benefit the football club’s leaders at the expense of the public interest.
The public prosecutor describes the activities as ongoing crimes of administrative misconduct, misappropriation of public funds, and illegal negotiations by public officials, and initially seeks eight years in jail for each offender.
Author: Derek Appleton
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