Madrid/Málaga, (EFE).- The mayoress of Marbella, Ángeles Muñoz, has denied in writing to the Senate that there are irregularities in her assets. In addition, she dismisses as “false” the suspicions expressed by the PSOE about the increase in her assets that have motivated an investigation by the Chamber. She spoils them, she attributes them to an electoral “harassment campaign”.
This is stated in a document addressed to the Committee on Incompatibilities of the Senate. In it, she explains that if in November 2022 she updated her mandatory asset statement upwards, it was after a donation of shares by her husband -recently deceased- made two years earlier, when she was already a PP senator. .
Muñoz describes as “slanderous” the writing of the socialist group that gave rise to these inquiries. He attributes it to a “harassment campaign” by the PSOE in an “electoral strategy” to “dark” the image of the Marbella City Council.
Above all, she stresses, after the unsuccessful attempts of the PSOE to appear in the legal proceedings opened against her husband in the National Court. She maintains that the Socialists use the Senate “as a refuge option to continue with this persecution” and using the General Courts in an “unfair and unworthy” way.
Code of Conduct of the Cortes Generales
At the end of last March, the Incompatibility Commission gave a period of ten working days to the mayoress, the Marbella City Council and the Benahavís City Council, of which she was a councilor, to clarify with documentation whether they contracted with her or with her entourage. The term ends this week.
The investigations promoted by the PSOE intend to find out if Ángeles Muñoz infringed the Code of Conduct of the Cortes Generales. Specifically, because she did not verify part of her important assets, but she affirms that she communicated it when they told her that it was mandatory.
Specifically, she explains that the asset update was due to a “donation of shares” in July 2020 from a Spanish company by her husband. This is the Swedish businessman Lars Gunnar Sune Broberg, due “to a family situation of serious illness” in March of that year. Her husband passed away recently.
This donation, it continues, was made before a notary, is recorded in the Mercantile Registry of Malaga, is registered with the Junta de Andalucía and appears in its 2020 declaration of assets.
“Therefore, there is absolutely no irregularity. In any case, a modification that is registered as soon as they tell me that it is mandatory to do it during the legislature and not at its end, ”says the senator.
Without responsibility of the Marbella town hall
In addition, it states that “at least” a dozen PSOE senators are in a similar situation due to asset updates. For this reason, he suggests that they also be cited.
Regarding the suspicions expressed by the socialist group about the “striking” of its bulky assets despite being dedicated “exclusively” to political life for decades, he stresses that they are “false.” And she records the attempts of the PSOE to appear in an open procedure in the National Court against her husband and her stepson, among others, for money laundering and drug trafficking.
None of these attempts were fruitful, he remarks, due to opposition from the Prosecutor’s Office and the investigating judge. They did not find any responsibility of the Marbella town hall in the case or participation in the facts investigated.
In short, Ángeles Muñoz proclaims that in his political career “he had never seen a document” presented in the Senate “with a greater number of defamatory assessments, lies and dishonorable comments whose sole objective is to intensify the PSOE’s campaign of harassment towards this senator” .
And he limits this case to a “controversy” due to the update of his statement of November 17, 2022. In it he stated that he raised the share ownership of a home in Sweden from 50 to 100%. Also a plot, a berth and an industrial warehouse in Malaga on account of the donation of shares on July 7, 2020.
The calendar set by the commission to investigate this matter sets next Friday as the deadline to receive the required documentation.
The senator will be summoned by the socialist group, although she may refuse to attend the appeal, and in any case she has the right to be heard to provide her version. EFE