Anti-corruption maintains the request for 8 years in prison for the 'money junkie' for diverting funds from Imelsa

Prosecutor's Office

has made its conclusions definitive in the piece Thematica derived from the

case and has maintained its request for eight years and three months in prison for the former manager of the public company Imelsa

, self-styled 'money junkie', and another five years in prison for the former mayor of Moncada with the PP,

.

The public ministry has advanced its request in this Monday's session of the trial of this first piece of the macro-cause, in which alleged irregularities in awards to the Thematica Events company are judged and there are accusations of alleged crimes of prevarication, embezzlement of public funds , falsity in a commercial document and in an official one carried out by officials, fraud in contracting and money laundering.

Together with Benavent, the prosecutor has maintained his request for five years for Juan José Medina, 11 for the administrator of Thematica,

, and another nine for the former head of service at the Valencia City Council and current official Francisca Tamarit.

The public ministry has lowered its request for Benavent's alleged figurehead,

, by applying the mitigating circumstance of confession, which requires nine months in prison and the payment of 205,000 euros for money laundering, as well as two businessmen Sevillians.

For its part, Benavent's defense will allege in its report the analogous mitigating circumstance of quasi-prescription.

Anti-corruption frames the events within the "criminal operation" designed for the alleged diversion of public funds using the public company Imelsa -later transformed into

and liquidated-, by its leaders, including Marcos Benavent, manager of said company by decision of the former 'popular' president of the Valencia Provincial Council,

.

Irregular electoral financing

Regarding the alleged diversion of public funds from Imelsa to pay for the electoral campaigns of the Popular Party in the municipal elections of 2007 and in the general elections of the year 2008, the public ministry believes that for the municipal elections of May 2007, Thematica Events carried out electoral campaign acts of the PP of Juan José Medina for an amount of 11,782.77 euros (VAT not included) that would have been paid by Imelsa through raising fictitious costs in real billing with the company, having "full knowledge" of it both Marcos Benavent as Juan José Medina, who held the position of campaign coordinator for the Popular Party and vice president of the Provincial Council of Valencia".

Within the same municipal elections, Thematica Events carried out electoral campaign work for the popular candidate for mayor of Vilamarxant,

, --against whom no accusation is directed as the facts are prescribed for him, the prosecutor points out-- who They would have been paid by Imelsa and hidden from the Court of Auditors in the accounts that the parties must present as electoral expenses.

The case also refers to the "rigged" award of the 2008 and 2009 Bibliobús contract with the Department of Culture -at that time directed by the late

of the "fraudulent" concert of the year 2010 for this service.

The company Liberty Iceberg, whose administrator and sole partner was Rafael García Barat, would also participate in this predetermined contracting.

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