Valencia city PP party dissolved over corruption probe and placed in hands of management committee
Sunday, January 31, 2016 @ 7:17 PM
VALENCIA city council's right-wing PP party – now in opposition – has been dissolved and a management committee has taken over following the latest corruption scandal to come to light.
Once the initial hue and cry is over, the party will be completely refounded and every councillor replaced with someone else.
It will keep its name and logo, but the PP in Valencia city will comprise 100% new faces.
And the PP in the provincial council will be completely restructured, with current big bosses Juan José Medina and Emilio Llopis having been fired by the Regional Committee of Rights and Guarantees after they were fingered by the anti-fraud squad.
Guardia Civil officers, when they raided the city hall, walked into the PP's offices and ordered: “Stop what you're doing and take your hands off your keyboards.”
The public-sector-run business and finance promotion and management company Imelsa, which is 100% State-owned, is under the spotlight over suspicions of bribery, backhanders and inflated estimates meaning public funds went astray.
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