The prosecutor’s Office has requested a two-year prison sentence for fraud for the former president of Murcia Pedro Antonio Sánchez, of the PP, for allegedly arranging in 2014 the use of public money to improve his personal image on the Internet with the companies of the entrepreneur Alejandro de Pedro, one of the main causers in the Punic case of corruption. Sánchez, who resigned in April as regional president, resigned last Wednesday to the post of President of the PP Murcia and the seat in the autonomous Parliament.
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The former president of Murcia leaves all his charges beset by corruption
The popular accusation calls for nine years in prison for the former president of Murcia for the ‘ Punic case ‘ the Written by the prosecutor’s office, he recalls that in May 2014, Sánchez, from his position as education counselor, was applying to replace Alberto Garre as regional president. However, his image in the media was “stigmatized” by the publication of negative news, especially his imputation for crimes of urban corruption in the case of the Puerto Lumbreras Auditorium, the locality of which he was mayor.
Pedro Antonio Sánchez, according to the prosecutor, knew that the companies of De Pedro and José Antonio Alonso Conesa, former mayor of Cartagena, carried out works of cleaning the image on the Internet of the councillor of that locality, Pilar Barreiro. Sanchez asked this to mediate with Conesa to do the same with his online reputation. Sanchez allegedly agreed with Barreiro, who is also accused of similar crimes, in which this plan for the improvement of the personal political image will be paid with funds from the Ministry of Education through “a cover contract with simulated object”.
The contract would also include hiring a journalist to promote positive news about Sánchez in a digital medium managed by Pedro in Murcia. However, the contract and the payment of the public funds were not produced because the outbreak of the Punic operation prevented it.
