The Barcelona Environmental Prosecutor’s Office is asking for 10 months in prison, a fine of €2,400 and disqualification for five years for Sitges ex-mayor Miquel Forns and the local councillor for urban services in 2017 and now for finance, Carme Almirall.
The reason is for having authorised the remodeling of the Pins Vens car park with public funds, where there is a small area declared as non-developable land. The prosecutor has also asked for the same sentence for the head of the municipal works and projects department at the time and a lesser one for the secretary who authenticated the agreement.
The letter from the Prosecutor’s Office, to which L’Eco has had access, alludes to the fact that the defendants were ‘fully aware’ of the current urban planning regulations that prohibited the transformation of these lands into a public car park.
Despite this prohibition, ‘they chose intentionally not to respect the regulations’, the letter states. They also ‘promoted, either by direct action or by omission, the acts and administrative procedures necessary to carry out the construction of this car park, in breach of the established legal provisions’.
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