The socialist faces a trial from this Tuesday in which a possible sentence of three years in prison is at stake
The former socialist mayor of Ceutí, Manuel Hurtado, who is being tried this Tuesday morning for the so-called ‘sports case’, has rejected the possibility of reaching an agreement with the Prosecutor’s Office and the private accusations, which would have allowed them to be imposed minimum sentences in exchange for acknowledging the crimes attributed to him, for which he will face the risk of a possible sentence of up to three years in prison. On the contrary, those who accompany him on the bench, three municipal officials and the two representatives of the construction company that built the José Antonio Camacho sports complex, have agreed to reach an agreement, for which they will benefit from a significant reduction in sentences. that were claimed against them. These five defendants and their defense attorneys will be able to leave the room after accepting their responsibility and their respective sentences.
In the trial for the so-called ‘Sports Center case’, the aim is to determine the possible criminal responsibilities for the alleged illegalities in the adjudication and construction of the José Antonio Camacho de Ceutí sports complex, one of the star projects of this municipality and which took shape in the year 2003. Hurtado is accused of the alleged crimes of prevarication, fraud and false documentation, in which he would have incurred when he allegedly contracted the construction of the aforementioned sports complex, for an amount of almost 1.9 million euros, allegedly personally with the representatives of the winning firm. According to the Public Ministry, this was done without any legal administrative procedure, “without any record of contracting, or any budget item, or requests for other offers to obtain a lower price, or prior inspection of any kind by the Municipal intervention, no agreement of the Local Government Board approving the specifications, no copies of publication in the BORM, no act of opening tenders, no bids submitted, no patrimonial record of the plot, no act of reconsideration or final working”.
It was later, already ‘at last bull’, when the then mayor Hurtado presumably ordered his officials to process the award file for that contract, despite the fact that by that time the works were already completed and even inaugurated.