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Cehegín Mayor Jose Soria, and Procurement and Planning Councillor, Gregorio Morales, has said that "the Municipal People's Party, in opposition in 1999, was totally opposed, and thus recorded in the minutes of plenary, procurement of works management system that now has caused the council has had to pay back 96,354 euros. "

The statements were made during a press conference to be convened by the council to assess the information published on Tuesday in the local press reporting on the return of more than 96,000 euros to which the council has been forced Cehegin following irregularities in the award of works contracts and justification for the Plan of Works and Services in 2000, during the term socialist, largely financed by ERDF funds.

Soria as "the return of this money comes at the worst time because of the situation they are facing all municipalities as a result of the crisis."

He has also pointed out "that these sixteen million pesetas could have hired many cehegineros who are struggling on the dole", among other things.

For his part, Councillor for Employment, Gregorio Morales, has emphasized that since the first time they reached the town hall in the opposition, they requested that you change the hiring system works and was repeated for four years of the legislature in every discussion of construction plans, "as can be read in all of these full records from 1999 to 2002."

After nine years and three appeals, the city has had to refund that amount, considering the Economic Administrative Tribunal of the Ministry of Economy that the subsidy granted in 2001 for the implementation of these improvements in the town has at least five irregularities, including lack of agreement on several pieces or lack of justification for the execution of the work by the council, which has already paid the amount, but is waiting for settlement occurs interest on arrears, so that finally the money will come from local coffers will far outweigh the 100,000 euros.

Among the irregularities is also the absence of two contracts and the lack of justification for dividing the project into three tenders, and have exceeded 50% of the cost of the project to recruit collaborators.

Source: Ayuntamiento de Cehegín