Orihuela courts have opened an investigation into the unlawful sale of scrap steel by council workers that has allegedly been taken from a municipal storage compound on the Molins highway, subsequent to the Native Police Headquarters.
The fraud is claimed to have been happening since a minimum of 2019 though it’s thought thus far again a lot additional. Workers acknowledge that inventories of scrap deposits into the municipal warehouse will not be maintained so there isn’t any report of the incomings or the gross sales or the next disposals.Â
In keeping with the Spanish Newspaper Diario Informacion, the managers despatched workers to promote scrap items that had been withdrawn from use and saved within the municipal warehouse.
The workers visited a number of firms – within the PolÃgono de Puente Alto, AlmoradÃ, Los Montesinos and on the highway to Alicante-Murcia – and after that they had made the sale, they handed the money to the supervisor who made free use of it, with out transferring it to the municipal accounts.
In keeping with a number of witnesses, as Christmas was approaching, yearly, the supervisor ordered that the steel components be taken to an area scrapyard in an effort to increase the fund.
The cash, regarded as within the area of seven,600 euros, was spent on workers lunches, in addition to the set up of two air conditioners, which price 1,300 euros, and two televisions, that have been positioned in the remaining areas utilized by the gangs of each masons and gardeners.
In Could 2023, a Treasury report discovered that the municipal accounts haven’t any report of any revenue from the sale of scrap.
