Fernando José Villén, who was technical general director of the Andalusian Training and Employment Fund Foundation (Faffe) dependent on the Government of Andalusia, has been sentenced to six years in prison for using bank cards charged to the foundation to pay services in hostess premises.
The sentence handed down by the Provincial Court of Seville, and announced today by the Superior Court of Justice of Andalusia, also punishes the former director of the institution's economic-financial department, Ana Valls, to five years and three months in prison. prison, considering it key to falsifying the financial data of the institution in order to justify, with “fictitious” expenses and “false” documents, the activities of his superior.
In total, the dent in the municipal coffers in this case amounts to 32,566 euros, money that should have been allocated to the training of unemployed Andalusians and which, on the contrary, went to the organization of parties and other services in brothels of different provinces.
Villén, head of the Foundation from its creation in 2003 until 2010, had three cards charged to Faffe with which, according to the ruling, he made up to 40 payments in brothels worth 32,566 euros. The convicted person “disposed of said public funds for his personal use and profit, in activities completely unrelated to the public function, without having returned the fees made through any of his bank accounts or in cash through the Central Bank. the Foundation", explains the Court, who details that "he only partially returned" the money from one of his parties worth 8,437 euros.
These expenses tried to be “justified” by the former director in connivance with Valls who, “by common agreement” created a system to “simulate the returns” declaring them as “per diems or trips that absorbed the amount of the refund” to “balance the cash.” However, the ruling states, the expenses “were fictitious since the documentation” that could justify the destination of that money was “practically non-existent.”
This “distortion” in the accounts with the provision of “false documents”, continues the text of the ruling, “not only affected” the economic reality of the foundation “but also the entire Autonomous Administration, of which the citizens and “Social agents have the right to obtain complete and truthful information.”
Villén and Valls, who received a guilty verdict by a popular jury, now face the sentence handed down by the Justice of Seville, from which a sentence of 6 years in prison is imposed on the former director of the Faffe by the commission of a continued crime of embezzlement in a media competition with a continued crime of falsifying an official document as an inducement, as well as the payment of a fine of 7,200 euros and special disqualification from holding public office or employment for six years. In addition, he will have to compensate the Board with 24,129 euros (the difference between the amount diverted from public coffers to pay for services in brothels and what was returned).
For her part, Ana Valls has been sentenced to five years and three months less one day in prison as the author of a crime of embezzlement in a media competition with a continuing crime of falsifying an official document, also as the author, as well as the imposition of payment of a fine worth 5,840 euros and special disqualification from holding public office or employment for five years.
It should be noted that Faffe was born in 2003 and that its dissolution took place in 2011.
