Provincial court convicts Popular Party veteran on four charges worth 700,000 euros
LORENA ORTEGA Castellón 25 NOV 2013 – 14:54 CET
Carlos Fabra, the former chief of Castellón province who became famous for building a planeless airport featuring a large statue in his honor, has been sentenced to four years in prison for tax fraud.
The anticorruption public prosecutor had requested an eight-year jail sentence for the Popular Party (PP) politician on four counts against him related with his not declaring income of almost two million euros to the tax office between 1999 and 2004 – a fraud worth almost 700,000 euros.
The Castellón provincial court absolved him of two other charges of influence peddling and bribery.
Fabra’s ex-wife was also sentenced to two years in prison on two other tax fraud charges.
The sentence is the culmination of a 10-year investigation into the man who headed the provincial council of Castellón, part of the Valencia region, between 1995 and 2011.
In the last session of the trial in October, the public prosecutor considered Fabra’s responsibility proven and emphasized the accusations of tax fraud: “He is not just any fraudster, he was president of the provincial council and while he demanded taxes he was committing fraud in the background.”
The sentence, which was made known on Monday, absolved the businessman who reported Fabra and his ex-wife of crimes of influence peddling and bribery. The ex-senator Miguel Prim, also charged with influenced peddling, was similarly cleared.
via Ex-Castellón chief Fabra sentenced to four years for tax fraud | In English | EL PAÍS.
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