The former mayor of Santa Úrsula Ricardo García (who was active in AISU) and three former mayors who were part of its governing board in April 2009 have recently been sentenced to one year in prison and nine years of disqualification for the Criminal Court Number 1 of Santa Cruz de Tenerife for irregularly approving the first occupancy licenses for 46 homes in the urbanization La Quinta, as Mírame TV has advanced this Tuesday. The sentence, still appealable, condemns them for a crime of urban prevarication, committed by granting the aforementioned licenses without the construction company having completed the urbanization works.
The origin of this sentence is in the Governing Board held on April 3, 2009in which the then mayor of Santa Úrsula, the nationalist Ricardo Garciaand the AISU councilors at that time Maria Eugenia Medina, Immaculate Arbelo and Magadalena Luis They approved these first occupation licenses against the criteria of the technicians, who warned that they could not be granted until the urbanization works were completed and all the planned services came into operation.
The magistrate understands that there was prevarication and censorship, especially the actions of the former mayor, of whom she says, according to what Mírame TV has revealed, that «Ricardo García does not care that the technical report is negative, that the legal report does not exist and that the terms of the license have been contravened or that public money has to be used that is budgeted or intended for another purpose to finish some works that correspond to a private entity, because the important thing about all this is not the legality or the delivery of a home in optimal conditions for habitability, but that the promoter has to get rid of the urbanization». The judge also condemns the former councilors for considering that “it is not enough to exclude criminal responsibility to allege an alleged ignorance of the basic rules related to the main functions of a city council, such as the granting of municipal licenses, alleging what they told me, is that I believed, is that I did not know».
Ricardo García was already sentenced in 2019 to seven years of disqualification for irregular hiring
Ricardo Garcia already accepted in July 2019 a sentence of seven years disqualification from employment or public office for a continued crime of administrative prevarication for the illegal hiring of 22 people between 2005 and 2011. The Criminal Court Number 1 of Santa Cruz also concluded then that Ricardo García, “acting in the exercise of his public office as mayor of Santa Úrsula , in the spirit of partiality and with full knowledge that its resolutions were contrary to the law”, hired a total of 22 people for the City Council “without respecting the access criteria established by law”.
