Note provided by GONZALEZ FRANCO Criminal Lawyers:
"The members of UCOM Francisco Núñez and Antonio José Rodríguez acknowledged today in his witness statement before the Magistrate's Court No 1 of Totana instructing the Operation Totem that, contrary to what ousted the previous witnesses, also members of UCOM, in that operation, Francisco de las Heras and José María Canovas Canovas, we do know of free works in the College of St. Joseph. Thus, these witnesses have endorsed the version that both our client, José Martínez Andreo, as himself UCOM president, Pedro José Martínez Ruiz, have been holding throughout the process in the sense that these works were a free gift to the City.
During the course of the statement, Francisco Nuñez has been recognized, first, that "the donation of works of UCOM it said José María Bonmatí and then Barceló and Pedro Martínez Alfonso," adding that "several meetings they talked about the free of the St. Joseph school plays. "
On the other hand, Antonio Rodriguez, a partner in UCOM and, in turn, owns the construction company that carried out these works, has removed "who was present at the press conference in which advertised free of charge the same" , saying, therefore, that in construction "work they are paid UCOM" who "monthly certificates that had been executed."
Consider this defense that the above statements come to prove that, if it is true that in principle in agreement negotiations Espuña Ladera considered whether they pay for the convention by conducting a series of works, including the classrooms of the Colegio San José, so is that since it was decided that the final payment would be with money, as it were-end, the latter, hidden by previous UCOM partners who testified last 22 before this same court in January.
In that sense, the witness himself Mr. Nuñez said that "it is satisfied that the negotiations of the agreement at first spoke of it could pay to work, and that after the intervention of legal advisers decided that was paid to money. "
In other matters, also said today the then counsel for the City of Totana, Javier Cegarra, accused in these proceedings and has recognized that "had knowledge of the agreement which contained the free works."
In relation to this document, and although the defendant has stated that when he was commissioned to review the agreement "did not notice or date, or the content, or applicable law, or anything", the same has said it "believes that it is possible to show in writing an oral agreement."
In that sense, it fits the version supported by our client, the mayor José Martínez Andreo that, indeed, in 2007, after prior request of the Court of Instruction No. 4 which, at that time, instructed the case concerning Colegio San José works, decided to pick up in writing what the previous year had been a verbal agreement.
Catches the attention of this defense, how could it be otherwise, on the issue of free school classrooms in San Jose whose education should be recalled, began in the days after complaint filed by the Socialist Party, is Mr. José María precisely Canovas Canovas who deposed ignore this donation in previous witness statement, otherwise this would denote an insurmountable contradiction with the above complaint filed by the PSOE, the party of which he was councilman during the term of Alfonso Martínez Baños.
Finally, this representation wish to note that this date has been submitted in writing to the Magistrate's Court No 1 of Totana applying the practice of further investigative steps, together with the statements carried on today, will come to confirm the above extremes. "
