Albacete (EFE) to a “poisoned inheritance” whose origin dates back to 1968.
The Economic Vice President of the Provincial Council, Fran Valera, explained that, once the decision has been made to pay the outstanding amount to return the inheritance, the measure must go through the plenary session of the institution and, after its full approval, the resolution It will have to be on public display for 20 days and you can proceed to make the payment.
Sentenced to pay 11 million for farm yields
The Albacete Provincial Council was ordered to pay eleven million euros and the return of the assets it had received from the inheritance of Purificación Urrea, of which the provincial institution has already paid three million and will now enter the remaining eight.
The court sentenced the Diputación to this payment, as a return (between 1968 and 2014) of the rustic farms linked to the inheritance that the provincial institution received from Purificación Urrea.
One of the farms is in the capital Albacete, that of ‘Las Tiesas’, headquarters of the Provincial Technical Agrarian Institute (ITAP) and where various research studies have been carried out.
Also included are the San Gregorio farm, in Alpera; and Casa del Pozo, in Valdeganga, both in this same province.
The Albacete Provincial Council decided not to appeal the sentence
In July of last year, it was learned that the Provincial Court ratified the sentence of the Court of First Instance number 5 of Albacete, which condemned the Provincial Council to return the inheritance for not having fulfilled the conditions stipulated by the deceased when bequeathing her assets and, although there was room for appeal before the Supreme Court, the provincial institution decided not to appeal.
The president of the Albacete Provincial Council, Santiago Cabañero, when he communicated the decision not to appeal, argued that the provincial institution did not share “the substance of that sentence or the payment of that compensation” since the Provincial Council had not possessed the assets “of bad faith since 1968”.
However, he defended that “the sentences are complied with” and that the appeal would only further prolong the closure of the matter.
In fact, the decision not to appeal the sentence to the Supreme Court was adopted, unanimously by all the political groups present in the institution, in the plenary session in September last year.
He asked for a hospital for poor children
The events date back to the late 1960s, with the death of Purificación Urrea, when the Albacete Provincial Council received his legacy.
In his will, he reflected the condition that the “Las Tiesas” farm should be used for the construction of a hospital for poor “sick and destitute” children, which was never carried out.
Urrea had initially asked that his inheritance pass to the San Juan de Dios congregation, on the condition that this hospital be built on its land to care for “sick and helpless” poor children.
If the congregation rejected him -as it happened- he would go to the Albacete Provincial Council, which his father had presided over years before.
He also bequeathed furniture and even a Mercedes
Among his inheritance, which is inventoried in detail, there was even some furniture that has been in the palace that houses the provincial institution and even an old Mercedes brand car, although the main value was in the farms.
The matter has been in the courts for more than 20 years, since it was in the year 2000 when his nephews denounced the Provincial Council for not having built the appeal that Purificación Urrea had requested in writing as a last will.
In “Las Tiesas”, for years, there was a care center for drug addicts, but never the project that Urrea had asked for when he gave his inheritance to this institution.
In a few weeks, his assets will pass into the hands of his nephews and the Provincial Council will shelve this matter definitively, which has cost him eleven million euros.