The Supreme Court prosecutes the deputy of the PP Alberto Casero for prevarication and embezzlement

MADRID, 3 Mar. (EUROPA PRESS) -

The investigating magistrate of the Supreme Court Andrés Palomo has agreed to prosecute the PP deputy Alberto Casero for the crimes of prevarication and embezzlement of public funds in relation to five contracts he signed when he was mayor of Trujillo (Cáceres) in 2017 and 2018 without subjecting himself to the legally established administrative procedures.

In his order to move to abbreviated procedure, the magistrate gives the Prosecutor's Office ten days to request the opening of an oral trial formulating his indictment.

It was in March 2022 when the Supreme Court decided to open a case against Casero after the Trujillo court ruled in his favor. Then, in eight pages, the court reviewed the reasoned statement of the Trujillo court, which opened preliminary proceedings by virtue of a complaint from the Prosecutor's Office regarding certain contracts, agreements or agreements entered into in 2017 and 2018 by Casero --when he was mayor of the locality-- with third parties.

According to the documentary and testimonial evidence provided by the court, there are solid indications that the aforementioned contracting acts were carried out by Casero without subjecting himself to the administrative procedure provided for it, for which reason, in his opinion, he undertook to pay various amounts without notifying the City Hall and without the necessary reports.

The court pointed out, in turn, that in March 2017 he hired a psychologist hiding it from the City Council, without providing the contract, without a contract file, without a report on the need for the service and without approval of the expense.

In September 2017, he signed a contract with the president of the Peruvian Chamber of Commerce in Spain committing the City Council to pay 25,000 euros, without notifying the economic and legal services of the City Council, without the agreement being previously approved and without submit it to public information or be published in the BOE.

That same year, Casero verbally agreed to contribute 18,000 euros to an event organized by the Bon Vivant Cultural Association, without following any procedure and without informing the City Council services. In June 2018, he signed a sponsorship contract with the same association committing himself to the contribution of 18,000 euros, also assuming other costs, without following any contracting procedure.

The reasoned exposition also included two other facts. A contract in 2018 with the company Icaro Consultores en Comunicación, SLU, for the organization of an event for an amount of 14,303 euros plus VAT, without informing the competent services and without following the proper procedure. And another contract, from that same year, with Radio Interior SL --a communication and promotional services contract for the Trujillo Cheese Fair-- for an amount greater than 15,000 euros, resorting to the minor contract procedure when, due to the amount, should be tendered in an open procedure.