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“La Pantoja cost me 90 million pesetas.” These are some of the phrases that the former mayor of Marbella Julián Muñoz addressed to his former partner, the tonadillera Isabel Pantoja, in the posthumous interview he gave to the program ‘De Viernes’ on Telecinco and which was broadcast on the night of this Wednesday after his death.
«My heritage, much or little, was left entirely. I changed the rose for the thorn. “He left me in fucking misery,” he said, while confessing that he furnished the entire house in ‘La Pera’ as well as setting up a recording studio that cost 60,000 euros. Muñoz recounted his entire love relationship from the beginning to the end, just as he wanted to tell “his truth” before dying and expressed his version of the events of everything that happened in the most famous episode of corruption in Spain, the ‘Malaya case’, in some memories that will soon see the light. “If I have to apologize it is to the people of Marbella, to no one else,” he said right at the beginning of the interview. Muñoz gave details of how the main people involved in this plot became rich. “José Luis Sierra was the one who invented municipal companies, which was a way to divert money,” he said. Thus, the former mayor admitted that he earned 50,000 pesetas from each of these entities, presiding over 22 of them. Likewise, he charged for full attendance, to committees, to any neighborhood association where they had to meet, as well as 5 million pesetas a year for belonging to the GIL group and being a deputy. «Gil gave me a house and I sold it for 35 million (pesetas). That was money and I kept it all in bills and envelopes. He had a driver and he didn’t pay practically anywhere,” he said in the interview while acknowledging that “he lived like a marquis.”
Real estate developers
These last public words from Julián Muñoz echo another of the main sources of income for those involved in corruption: urban planning. According to the former councilor, four or five promoters “were the ones who provided the money.” Likewise, in his speech he assured that they made urban planning agreements and gave building licenses in exchange for money. There was also another formula that was based on the construction of buildings where those involved were given apartments that they then sold at market price, as he explained. “Look, how easy it is to make money,” he added. At this point, it is worth noting that at one point in the program the former mayor named his former romantic partner, Isabel Pantoja, as he confessed that he himself spoke with Aifos so that they would give the tonadillera an apartment in Guadalpín in exchange for publicity. .
Muñoz also had words for the former Urban Planning advisor, Juan Antonio Roca. «Here we are and we have come to make money together. Marbella is a company and we are going to operate as companies operate,” said said convict in Malaya according to the former mayor who, on the other hand, assured that Roca “did not once put his hand into the municipal coffers.” “Their thing was businessmen’s money and privileged information,” he added.
In turn, he noted that the former advisor “gave bonuses and envelopes to Carlos Fernández, Marisol Yagüe and Isabel García Marcos.” “They took him away for putting the motion of censure on me,” he added.
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