Oviedo (EFE) , as confirmed to EFE by sources from the Prosecutor’s Office on Tuesday.
The one who was also Minister of Development and Vice President of the Government of the PP faces a request for two years in prison by the Prosecutor’s Office and the private prosecution exercised by Foro, who consider that Álvarez-Cascos used his “absolute control” in the party to have financial resources from the formation “for purposes unrelated to political activity, in the case of expenses of a personal nature.”
The two accusations only diverge in the compensation they request, since while the Prosecutor’s Office estimates the economic damage to Forum at 7,793 euros, the party claims 218,780 euros, of which it has already consigned 10,390 euros, as specified in the order to open the oral trial dictated a little over a year ago by the Court of Instruction number 2 of Oviedo, which imposed a bond of 290,000 euros to ensure the pecuniary responsibilities that could be imposed.
Hotels, meals or AVE tickets
The Prosecutor’s Office had issued a report detailing a series of expenses amounting to 5,550 euros that Álvarez-Cascos allegedly diverted towards his personal assets or that of related persons.
Among these expenses are hotels, food at home, video console games, four AVE tickets for their children, tickets for the Davis Cup, museums, a complete bed made up of a mattress, legs and a sofa, restaurant bills in summer resorts or a hotel stay of his father-in-law that he allegedly charged between 2011 and 2017.
For the examining magistrate, Álvarez-Cascos could have used his position as the party’s top official, and later that of general secretary, as well as the “absence of an insufficient cost control system” in training, to charge ” expenses of a personal nature not related to his political activity and therefore unrelated to the activity and interest of the party”. EFE