The National Court has convicted 29 people, six of them former mayors of the Community of Madrid, for corruption crimes committed through the awarding of million-dollar contracts to the Cofely company in exchange for commissions and gifts between 2012 and 2014 in the so-called Punic plot. The main sentence has fallen on David Marjaliza, the corrupter of this plot and former partner of Francisco Granados – who has not been tried in this piece -, who has been sentenced to eight years and two months in prison.
The Court has sentenced the former mayor of Móstoles Daniel Ortiz Espejo, the mayor of Collado Villalba Agustín Juárez, the mayor of Moraleja de Enmedio Carlos Alberto Estrada, all from the PP, to prison sentences; to Serranillos del Valle, Antonio Sánchez Fernández, from an independent party, as well as to the socialist José María Fraile, former councilor of Parla.
Likewise, he sentences the brothers Alejandro and Mario Utrilla to prison, the first former Environment Councilor of Móstoles and the second former regional deputy of the PP and former mayor of Sevilla La Nueva.
For the councilor of Torrejón de Velasco Gonzalo Cubas, of the PP, the penalty is special disqualification, while those of Almendralejo (Badajoz) José García Lobato and of Valdemoro, José Carlos Boza, of the same party have been acquitted.
