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Seven years of disqualification for prevarication for the former mayor of the PP of Coristanco (A Coruña)
Antonio Pensado Plágaro, who was mayor of Coristanco (A Coruña) between 1991 and 2015 for the Popular Party, has been sentenced to seven years of disqualification from employment or public office for a crime of prevarication. The events occurred in 2012, when, as the town’s first mayor, he authorized a company to store demolition and construction waste on a farm. The Provincial Court of A Coruña assures that the resolution adopted then by Pensado was “arbitrary and contrary to the law”.
The former mayor has not been the only one convicted. The same penalty has fallen on the three managing brothers of the beneficiary firm. Thought, that in 2015 he lost the elections and had stood as a defender of the controversial and finally aborted Corcoesto mining project, he is by profession an official of the Agrarian Chamber.
The judges of the second section of the court affirm in the sentence that Pensado Plágaro “acted in concert with the three businessmen to try to nullify” the sanctions of the Xunta de Galicia for the unauthorized deposit of materials.
The dictates, however, absolve the ex-mayor of the other crimes of prevarication that the Public Ministry charged him, as well as that of falsehood, and, the businessmen, of the other crimes of prevarication and influence peddling. Thus, he understands that it has not been proven that the then municipal councilor tried to favor the three business brothers, who were supposedly linked by a friendship, when awarding works.