The second section of the Provincial Court of Valencia has sentenced the former mayor of Gandia, Arturo Torró (PP), to a sentence of three years and six months in prison and six years and six months of absolute disqualification as the author of a crime of embezzlement for the adjudication of the City Council's audiovisual communication services from 2012 to 2015.
The Court also condemns the businessman Ricardo Manuel Faura, from the Comarques Centrals Televisió company, to one year and nine months in prison and three and a half years of absolute disqualification for understanding him as a necessary cooperator of a crime of embezzlement, and acquits the rest of the defendants.
The ruling condemns Torró and Faura to jointly and severally indemnify the Gandia City Council with 135,812.50 euros, plus legal interest and to pay, each of them, 2/18 parts of the procedural costs including, in said proportion, the costs of the private prosecution.
It also condemns the company Comarques Centrals Televisió, as subsidiary civil liability, to the payment of the same compensation.
The trial of the so-called 'Tele 7 case' settled the responsibility of the man who was mayor from 2011 to 2015 and six others prosecuted for the crimes of embezzlement of public funds and fraud in contracting allegedly committed in the award, through a public company , of the communication services of the City Council between 2012 and 2015 to the firm Comarques Centrals Televisió.
