The PSOE has asked the Mayoress of Marbella (Málaga, 150,725 inhabitants), Ángeles Muñoz (PP), to clarify her origins. She did so as part of the work of the commission investigating whether the senator also broke the Cortes Generales code of conduct after updating her assets in the Senate days after her husband – who died on March 4 – and her stepson were charged with drug trafficking and money laundering. The Socialists have also asked the town halls of Marbella and Benahavís – where he was a councilor in the late 1990s – for “all explanations on possible grounds of incompatibility, economic interests, inheritance and interests in companies” and whether they maintained any type of contractual relationship with the councilor’s relatives and some of the members of the criminal conspiracy.
The documentation, which Muñoz sent to the House of Lords in mid-November, included increasing his wealth to 100% of various properties in Spain and Sweden, of which he previously owned 50%. The Senate decided back in February this year to investigate this change for the first time in its history on the premise that it could violate the code of conduct. The agreement included a three-phase work phase leading up to the submission of the final report on April 3, which, in addition to the possible appearance of “persons deemed appropriate for the case” and the setting up of a working table, a first phase focused on the request for documents to clarify doubts.
There the PSOE formulates the demand that it is making of both the city council and the two public administrations of Málaga. The first thing the party requests is “a copy of the sales contracts, notarial deeds and registration data in the land register of legal transactions by virtue of which it acquired the inherited property detailed in the statement of assets and income filed on November 17, 2022,” as declared by the socialist formation. In particular, they relate to the house bought in Sweden in 2005, an industrial building acquired in 2018 and other assets – another house, another warehouse, land and a mooring – through the companies Crasel Panoramica and Hacienda Property, of which your incorporation documents, properties and Accounts are also requested. The application also includes her declarations before the tax authorities, proving her income since 2011.
From the Town Hall of Marbella – where Muñoz has been mayor since 2007, except for the period between 2015 and 2017 – as well as from Benahavís – where she served as councilor – the PSOE demands their explanations “regarding possible causes of the incompatibility, economic interests, inheritance and Holdings in companies,” Muñoz formulated “in his capacity as a member of the local body”. They are also demanding information on the existence or non-existence of the two companies’ relationships with the companies Crasel Panoramica and Hacienda Property, as well as with the mayor’s husband and stepson, and with Marko Mikael Holmen, Anders Nilsson and Leonardo Felice Cultrera Muñoz or Nils Anders Fisher, these are names that also appear in the indictment of the National Court signed by Judge Manuel García Castellón, which implicated the recently deceased husband of Muñoz and who identified the stepson as the leader of one of the fractions of a complex criminal organization dedicated to trafficking in hashish and marijuana.
The mayor of Marbella assured at the end of February last year that the commission set up in the Senate has no intentions other than electoral purposes and that every four years the PSOE tries to harm their local government. “It’s more the same, it’s what the socialists always do,” said the councillor, who has been confirmed by the Popular Party as the candidate for mayor of Marbella in the next municipal elections and who has the support of the Andalusian president. Juan Manuel Moreno Bonilla.
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