PARTALOA: A Judge investigates more than 100 illegal houses in Partaloa

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Stowaway

Thank you for the reply Maura, so in a nut shell, nothing has changed?  :o


Maura_Hillen

The accused got re-elected for a start.
None of our members are directly involved in these cases so we are not really tracking them. Unless something appears in the press as it has today in Diario de Almeria.


Stowaway

Hi I know this is a very old topic, but what was the outcome?  :tiphat:

Maura_Hillen


A judge investigates more than 100 illegal houses in Partaloa

Court Number 2 in Huercal-Overa has opened 8 criminal proceedings involving council members, a promoter and a town planner


Manual Leon, La Voz de Almeria 10th February 2011

The judge in court number 2 of Huercal-Overa has opened various proceedings for alleged planning crimes and prevarication in the town of Partaloa, with preliminary investigations exceeding five volumes of text.

Seven people have already been declared as defendants, amongst those councillors for the PSOE and the PP and also urban planners and a promoter. Standing accused are the socialist councillors Federico Molina Mora and Antonio Penuela Gonzalez, the PP councillor Jose Gonzalez, the promoter Amador Mora Montalvo and the town planner, Emilio Jose Garcia Rodriquez.  The Prosecutor and the judge are investigating activities relating to period from 2003 to 2007 when the town hall of Partaloa was governed by the socialist Federico Molina.

According to the investigation by the prosecutor, which came about because of denuncias by the current town hall administration presided over by Alejandro Lopez (GIAL) and the Environmental Protection Division of the Guardia Civil (SEPRONA), more than 100 houses have been constructed on non urban land, some without licenses.

Amongst those are some 70 houses on an urbanisation in the area of Retamar,  10 in Residencial Los Olivos (Cuesta de los Justos), 13 more on a promotion belonging to Lakes Vegas in the area of Piedra Amarilla, denounced by Seprona and various other single family dwellings in various locations such as Canada Honda and Los Camarotes, including a house constructed on rustic land without a licence belonging to the PP leader, who was fired as councillor for planning by the mayor Alejandro Lopez, a few months ago.

In total 8 proceedings have been opened – (two instigated by the town council and 8 by Seprona)– by the judge in Huercal-Overa for alleged planning crimes and prevarication in Partaloa, a village of about 500 residents in the Valley of Almanzora inhabited by a significant number of British residents.

The judge is now awaiting the indictment from the prosecutor to assign a date for trail in one of the criminal courts in Almeria.

One of the statements of the town hall lawyer included in the files reveals that " Antonio Penuela is a person who since 2004 has directed all of the urban design and construction on rustic land in Partaloa, as partner and participant in the businesses of the promoter Amador Mora, who for his part is the cousin of the then mayor". Penuela had denied these accusations to La Voz.



The Prosecutor asks for a prison term for the ex mayor, a promoter and an architect in Partaloa.

The irregular houses under investigation by the judge are mainly occupied by British residents and number over 100

Manel Leon, La Voz de Almeria, 11th February 2011

The ex mayor of Partloa and current opposition councillor for the PSOE Federico Molina Mora, together with the urban planner, Emilio Garcia Rodriquez, and the promoter Francisco Javier Fernandez del Pino are facing a demand for 6 months in prison and disqualification for planning crimes and prevarication. The request was made by the Prosecutor in the written accusation presented in Court Number 2 in Heurcal-Overa and awaiting trial in one of the criminal courts in Almeria.

Proceeding 31/09 seeks to clarify the alleged urban irregularities committed in the area of Piedra Amarilla in Partaloa with the construction of ten houses on non urban land. The promoter Lakes Vega, with headquarters in Arboleas, obtained municipal building licences, despite being on rustic land. The houses are inhabited in some cases by British residents and the construction was denounced by agents of Seprona from the Guardia Civil.

This is the most advanced of the eight cases opened at the request of the current council and agents of Seprona and under investigation in court number 2 in Huercal- Overa against council members, promoters and planners for alleged construction on non urban land in the municipality, numbering over 100 houses in the areas of Retamar, Los Justos, Piedra Amarilla, Canada Honda and Catamaranes.

To this we must add four administrative cases brought by the Ministry of Housing and Planning against the town council of Partaloa for planning irregularities in the neighbourhood  of Retamar, in Poligono 10 and for segregation against Jorefe mercantile in the neighbourhood of Piedra Amarilla.

There are older proceedings which, according to the municipal legal advisor, have been proscribed, which involved councillors Jose Gonzalez Reche and Bartolome Moreno Garcia. Other cases, opened at the request of the Prosecutor, also involving people from the town hall, turn the spotlight on the urbanisation of San Jose in Piedra Amarilla and the criminal proceedings against Jose Reche Fernandez, Federico Molina, Meliton Moreno, Enrique Moreno and Emilio Jose Garcia.

In this municipality of some 1,000 inhabitants a notable colony of British residents has flourished en the last few years as a result of the fever of construction in the Comarca de Almanzora in some cases on non urbanizable land.

A missing bank guarantee
The current mayor, Alejandro Lopez (GIAL), stated yesterday to Cadena Ser that "we have detected a series of very serious irregularities from the previous administration, which we have made known to the Prosecutor and the Judge who have seen evidence of a crime". Lopez considers that "we do not want houses that were constructed on non urban land to be demolished because they are occupied and the owners are not at fault; what we want is for them to be regularised and included in the current PGOU, but in compliance with the planning obligations as required by the law.

The mayor also denounced the disappearance of a bank guarantee for 65,000 euros which was deposited in the Council on behalf of the promoter Amador Mora Montalvo.

Cousins and Friends from childhood
A document submitted to the Prosecutor by the town council describes Antonio Penuela Gonzalez, councilmember in Partaloa and PSOE candidate for the upcoming elections in May, as the brains behind the illegal construction plot in Partaloa.

"From 2004 he has directed all of the urban design and construction realised on rustic land, acting as partner and participant in the businesses of the promoter Amador Mora Montalvo, who for his part is the cousin of the then mayor and socialist councillor Federico Molina Mora." The legal advisor provides a notarised document in which Mora gives power of attorney to Penuela in all of his businesses. In his declaration before the judge in Huercal-Overa, Penuela denied the allegations, although acknowledging that Amador Mora is a client of his consultancy in Olula and that they are also friends since childhood.