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The former director of the Institut Valencià d'Art Modern (IVAM),

Consuelo Císcar

, has acknowledged that she misappropriated museum funds to promote the career of her artist son,

Rafael Blasco

(known as 'Rablaci'), as well as the crime of administrative prevarication .

In addition, he has

accepted the sentence of one and a half years in prison

and two and a half years of disqualification from employment or public office.

The facts have also been recognized by the former administrative economic director,

Juan Carlos Lledó

, who has accepted one year in prison, and the businessman

Enrique B. Martínez Murillo

, who has accepted one year in prison for embezzlement and two months and 15 days in prison for a crime of falsification in a commercial document.

This is stated in the indictment to which all the parties have adhered. The order of the fourth section of the Court of Valencia that condemns Císcar considers it proven that he

organized exhibitions of his son in different countries

, coinciding with those that she

projected at the IVAM

, "in order to

pay

, in some cases,

his attendance at the inaugurations

of his son's exhibits with public funds from the museum. " A practice agreed with Lledó and the businessman who organized the exhibitions.

It points out that between 2008 and 2014 Císcar had "for his own benefit" the material and personal means of the public museum to "promote his son's artistic career."

On the other hand,

Rafael Blasco Císcar

"always

stayed out

of all the decisions that his mother was making regarding his career".

In the indictment, it is detailed that the defendants have acknowledged their participation in the events previously and that they have consigned 18,974 euros of public funds that were diverted for private purposes, with the commitment to pay the rest within 20 months.

Crimes of each

Specifically, Consuelo Císcar considers herself the author of the continuing crime of

administrative prevarication

and the continuing crime of

embezzlement of public funds

. For the continued crime of administrative prevarication, Císcar accepts the penalty of special disqualification for employment or public office for 2 years and 6 months. For the continuing crime of embezzlement of public funds, one year and six months in prison and special disqualification for employment or public office for a period of 2 years and 6 months is imposed.

For his part, Juan Carlos Lledó Rosa is a necessary cooperator of the continuing crime of administrative prevarication and the continuing crime of embezzlement of public funds. For the continued crime of administrative prevarication, the penalty of special disqualification for employment or public office for 1 year and a half is established. For the crime of embezzlement of public funds, the penalty of 1 year in prison and special disqualification for employment or public office for 1 year and 6 months is imposed.

Likewise, the businessman Enrique B. Martínez Murillo is a necessary cooperator of the continuing crime of embezzlement of public funds and of falsification of a commercial document.

For the embezzlement, the penalty of one year in prison and disqualification of 1 year and 6 months is agreed.

For the crime of falsehood, the penalty of two months and 15 days in prison is set, with legal accessory and two months of fine with a daily fee of 20 euros.

The penalty of two months and fifteen days in prison is replaced by a five-month fine with a daily fee of 20 euros.

Compensation

Likewise, they must indemnify, jointly and severally, the IVAM in

€ 50,000 for the diverted public funds

and

€ 25,000 for the

objective

damage

caused to the

reputation of the public entity

as a result of the continuous publication of the facts in the media.

This is the

main piece of the IVAM case

and there is a

second piece

of this procedure in which an

alleged millionaire fraud

with the acquisition of reproductions of works by the late sculptor

Gerardo Rueda

has been investigated

.

Throughout the instruction, Consuelo Císcar maintained that she did not use the resources of the art center to promote her son's career because both 'Rablaci's career in the art world and her own were "excellent."

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