FORMER Calpe mayor, Francisco Javier Morato, and two ex-Partido Popular councillors have been convicted of receiving bribes over a waste contract awarded
THE trial of ex-Calpe mayor Javier Morato for his alleged role in a fraudulent €4 million waste contract has been delayed yet again.
That’s because the Alicante courtroom is not big enough to safely accommodate everybody due to the coronavirus pandemic. .
September 20 has now been pencilled in as a new commencement date after a false start on January 21, and the inability to find a suitable courtroom for February 16.
Oral hearings in the case were first announced in 2016, but the start of proceedings in the biggest-ever corruption case in the history of the Marina Alta region have always hit the buffers.