From typicallyspanish.com
Reporting restrictions lifted on part of the Operación Tótem corruption in Totana
By h.b.
May 24, 2008 - 12:33 PM
A recording made in Barajas Airport in Madrid seems to indicate the corruption that existed in the Murcia town of Totana. The P.P. deputy and ex Mayor, Juan Morales, and the current Mayor, José Martínez are reported by El País to have been fighting over a three million € commission.
In the recorded conversation an intermediary says ‘We propose that instead of paying 600 million (pesetas) you give us 400 million in cash, which we can take in a bag to Murcia’.
The news comes as reporting restrictions have been lifted on part of the case summary in the Operación Tótem, which has resulted in 14 arrests in Murcia, Galicia and Madrid. The instruction judge considers that Juan Morales could have collected 12 million € in different commissions on deals done in the municipality over a time that 60 real estate developments were approved.
Morales is currently out of prison on 200,000 € bail.
Current mayor, José Martínez Andreo, knew all about the commissions and agreements with the previous Mayor, and according to the Totana judge, Maria Asunción Navarro, wanted his own slice of the action.