Through a press release issued by the Popular Party of Cantoria, Court number 2 of Huércal-Overa has admitted to process a criminal complaint filed by the PP councilors against the councilors of the Cantorian City Council and summons to testify in the near future the mayor of the town, Purificación Sánchez, the councilor for Urban Planning Ramón López (technical architect by profession), and a third party promoter of the houses condemned to demolition, for alleged crimes of administrative prevarication, influence peddling and fraud, for having acted outside the law.
According to the Popular Party, the complaint specifies that the houses were built on non-urbanizable land, without any municipal license to protect the aforementioned buildings, and that they were not authorized. Despite this, the defendants, instead of complying with the ruling of the Provincial Court of Almeria and the Criminal Court of Almeria (in execution of the sentence), allegedly hatched a plan to «legalize» said houses, ignoring both sentences, and thereby managing to grant the corresponding Assimilated Out of Order (AFO) files, so that they could be registered in the Property Registry of Huércal-Overa and subsequently sold to third parties in good faith, almost all of them European citizens, allegedly defrauded, as finally occurred.
The Popular Party of Cantoria regrets that the municipality is once again involved in such a murky situation due to the government team and explains that despite the existence of a report from the secretariat and a municipal technical report specifying that there was a complaint about said building from the Nature Protection Service of the Civil Guard «SEPRONA», and an execution of the Sentence by the Criminal Court of Almería, all of which was communicated to the City Council of Cantoria, they acted on their own, ignoring the judicial requirements of the Provincial Court of Almería and the Criminal Court.
Furthermore, many of the houses have been registered in the Property Registry of Huércal-Overa allegedly thanks to the complicity of the Cantoria Town Council, without at any time leaving a record of the court order for the demolition of the houses, as would have been the correct thing to do to protect potential buyers and future residents of our town who were unaware of this criminal sentence.
The Popular Party claims that the defendants have acted “without scruples” and “knowing that they were committing an illegality”, a situation that now directly harms the buyers and neighbours who acquired and paid in good faith for some houses located in Cantoria, ignoring the court ruling that weighs on them, having been hidden from them at all times.
The PP considers the actions of these public servants to be “outrageous” as “the only thing they are seeking is to allegedly serve themselves, without caring about the future of those families who acquired their homes with great enthusiasm and effort, having been deceived, spending their life savings and throwing them into an uncertain future due to their legal situation.”