The wife of the Mayor of Badajoz accused of selling an estate on same day as the town hall increases building rights
According to Cadena SER, The wife of the Mayor of Badajoz sold an estate for almost 2 million euros on the same day that the town hall authorized building rights over the same land. According to the radio station, the building permission was approved in a meeting chaired by her husband, Miguel Celdrán who is also a PP member of the Spanish senate.
The estate which was sold in December 2003 is more than 14,000 m2 and belonged to the Mayor’s wife, María Leonor Fernández, and her two brothers. It was sold to a well known property developer. The building permission was annulled by Rodríguez Ibarra, president of the Extremaduran government and a member of PSOE one year later.
According to La Cadena SER Miguel Celdrán is refusing to speak to reporters about the matter. However, José Ramón Suárez, spokesperson for PSOE in the Town Hall said that PSOE did not believe in coincidences like these, referring to the authorization given to build on the land being granted on the same day that the land was sold for almost 2 million euros.
The property developer insists that the land was bought at the market price.
At present the Town hall of Badajoz is immersed in an unprecedented constitutional crisis and its Counsellor for Finance has resigned following 12 years in the post.
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