The investigation opened for the supposed purchase of votes to favor the PSOE in the municipality of Mojácar in the 28-M elections now points to the PP as a formation that would have also benefited from this fraud. After the recount of votes, in this locality the PP has obtained a majority of votes.
According to legal sources, of the eight arrested on May 24 by the Civil Guard for the alleged commission of an electoral crime, one of them would have acted to benefit the PP and not the PSOE, as the rest of the groups would have allegedly carried out. involved. For this reason, the Court handling the case has opened a separate room to investigate these facts.
Although the Investigating Court also agreed to his provisional release after invoking his right not to testify, however, the judge agreed to his imprisonment in compliance with a requisition issued by a Criminal Court of Almería for events unrelated to this investigation. .
On the other hand, the head of the Court of First Instance and Instruction number 4 of Vera has agreed today to lift the summary secrecy of the proceedings for this alleged fraud in the investigated mail vote that broke out four days before the elections.
A total of eleven people are being investigated in the case. Of the total investigated, eight were arrested and in that condition they were brought to justice while the remaining three are still pending to be summoned by the judicial body. Two of the people arrested were on the PSOE list: Francisco Flores and Cristóbal Vizcaíno, who were in second and fifth place.
On the other hand, this same instructor agreed in previous days to withdraw a certain number of vote-by-mail envelopes so that the Police could carry out investigative proceedings within the case. The votes were deposited in the ballot boxes and only the empty envelopes were collected.
Likewise, it has sent to the Dean of the Courts of this judicial district the complaint presented by the PSOE party against the PP of the town of Mojácar for an alleged case of vote fraud. The complaint will be adjudicated to a Vera Court in the coming days for the investigation to continue.
It has also received a new complaint for another alleged case of fraud in the voting system. The complaint has been filed by a political party and the duty judge has officiated the judicial police to initiate the corresponding investigation into these facts.
The system allegedly used by the plot in Almería is similar to that of the disjointed plot in Melilla: financial compensation in exchange for postal suffrage. The police operation carried out in Melilla also days before the elections resulted in ten detainees who are accused of an electoral crime and belonging to a criminal group. Among those arrested is a member of the Government of Melilla, who was number three on the electoral list of the Coalition for Melilla.
