José Antonio Fernández Lladó, president of the PP of Alguazas, is released on charges related to the plot of officials who allegedly swindled Sangonera prisoners
The Civil Guard arrested this Tuesday the general director of Highways, José Antonio Fernández Lladó, for the alleged commission of crimes of prevarication and falsehood, undertaken in collaboration with the members of the plot of public officials who, under the accusation of falsehood and bribery, they would have defrauded inmates of the Sangonera prison who offered favorable treatment in exchange for money. After his arrest, the regional Executive has ordered the dismissal of Fernández Lladó as Director General of Highways, considering that the police investigation in which he is involved is “incompatible with the ethical demands of the regional government.”
As LA TRUTH learned, the general director did not participate in that plot, but received his help to solve a fiscal problem that would have led to a crime of documentary falsification committed in the Alguazas City Council. His involvement in these investigations arose when a telephone conversation was detected between the director general and the prison officer of the alleged plot, who had the telephone tapped by court order. Fernández Lladó was arrested this Tuesday by the Civil Guard, where he confessed the facts, later being released on charges of prevarication and falsehood, waiting to go to court when determined by the case instructor.
The general director of Highways has been president of the PP in Alguazas since 2005. He was a councilor of that city council since 1995, assuming powers of Urban Planning and Finance. He then was mayor of that town between 2001 and 2005 and from 2007 to 2015.
This Tuesday, an official from the Autonomous Community of Murcia and another belonging to a municipality in the Region, of which no further information has been released at the moment, were arrested early this Tuesday by the Civil Guard for their alleged relationship with this criminal plot in the Sangonera la Verde prison.
The origin of this investigation is found in a complaint filed more than a year ago by an inmate of the Sangonera la Verde penitentiary center, in which he revealed that a prison official had been receiving money for giving favorable treatment to inmates. Specifically, the suspect would have mediated to ensure more bearable destinations for the inmates and transfers to less conflictive modules, among other issues, always according to sources close to the case. Likewise, this public employee would have taken advantage of his situation to request significant amounts from other inmates, which would add up to several tens of thousands of euros, with the promise of investing them in business projects in which he claimed to be immersed and which were apparently going to be very profitable.
In these operations, he allegedly had the help of an official from the Tax Agency, as well as two other people who were arrested in the first moments of the police operation.