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Former Orihuela mayor Monica Lorente has been sentenced to a four-month prison term, and is disqualified from holding any public office for a period of 20 months, over the awarding of an illegal refuse contract in 2007.
Lorente served as mayor of the municipality from 2007 to 2011.
She won’t go to jail because this was her first offense with a sentence below the threshold of two years.
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Along with nine others including three ex-councillors, a total of nearly €600,000 will have to repaid to Orihuela council.
All the politicians are members of the Partido Popular.
Alicante Provincial Court reduced punishments due to the delayed resolution of the case.
24 other defendants have been acquitted in the so-called Brugal trial, including former Orihuela city mayor Jose Manuel Medina.
Orihuela’s refuse contract was deemed to have been ‘rigged’ in favour of an award to businessman Angel Fenoll- owner of Colsur SL and Proambiente SL.
Fenoll received a total of three years, nine months and nine days in prison for three offences involving bribery.
Prosecutors have accused those on trial of fraud and abuse of power. They also accused them of bribery, influence-peddling, illicit associations, and bribery. They are seeking up to a 38 year prison sentence.
Valencian Supreme Court will hear appeals on all sentences and verdicts.
Monica Lorente, Angel Fenoll and others are implicated in the Brugal investigation. This includes a probe into a waste treatment plant located in Vega Baja.
The Supreme Court is currently handling this matter.
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