The Santa Cruz Prosecutor’s Office Tenerife asks for a penalty of 15 special disqualification for employment or public office for the former mayor of El Tanque, Román Martín, for the irregular hiring of a municipal worker.
The indictment, collected by Europa Press, indicates that Martín hired a worker in breach of the Constitution, the Law of Bases of the Local Regime, the Basic Statute of the Public Employee and the PGE of 2017 and 2018which contained specific measures to contain the public deficit.
The Prosecutor’s Office highlights the “bias” of the former mayor and that he acted with “absolute disregard” for legality in force by ignoring the contrary report from the Secretariat and Intervention and dispensing with the principles of publicity, merit, equality and capacity to formalize the contract.
The trial is held next Tuesday at 10:00 am in the fifth section of the Provincial Court.
The hiring of the temporary worker was carried out via municipal decree and as an electrician’s assistant despite the fact that he finally performed the functions of a plumber, and for this he lifted the Intervention objection, although the worker’s contract had already been signed previously, even.
A Social Court of Santa Cruz de Tenerife came to recognize the contractual relationship of the worker with the City Council although it would have been carried out in fraud of law through various temporary contracts.
The Prosecutor’s Office recognizes that Martín “knew the consequences of his illegal proceeding when issuing each of the decrees” –in fact, he was already convicted of similar acts– and considers that the facts constitute a continuing crime of administrative prevarication.
This is the third legal case opened against the former northern mayor, who has already accumulated two sentences, one of 12 years of disqualification for the opening of a residence for the elderly and another of 14 years for the irregular hiring of 14 people.
The trial is held next Tuesday at 10:00 am in the fifth section of the Provincial Court.
