The judge sends a former director of the Andalusian Board to the bench for spending 32,000 euros on brothels

The former director of the Junta de Andalucía Fernando Villén will sit in the dock for allegedly spending 32,566 euros of public funds in brothels between 2004 and 2010. Villén alleged that he had returned the money paid with his three official cards, but the Anti-Corruption Prosecutor's Office He claims six years in prison for embezzlement in a medial contest with another crime of false documents, both continued.

The head of the Investigating Court 6 of Seville, José Ignacio Vilaplana, has opened this week an oral trial against Villén, former director under different governments of the PSOE of the Andalusian Foundation for Training and Employment (Faffe), a company already extinguished by the Board.

The former economic director of the entity, Anna Valls, will also sit on the bench with a request for four years in prison for trying to hide the alleged diversion of funds, according to the order dictated by Vilaplana this Wednesday and advanced by

.

A popular jury will judge the oral hearing in the Seville Court, which will have the Board and the PP as accusations.

“The accused would have been carrying out, in a continuous manner, an illegal disposition of the funds of the Andalusian Foundation Training and Employment Fund, diverting them from their own purpose – which is none other than the promotion and financing of activities related to training of unemployed―, using them to pay for the services received in different hostesses in Seville and other Andalusian provinces, ”says the magistrate in his order.

In parallel to the first piece of

, the Andalusian Parliament will hold a plenary session next week to approve the conclusions of the Faffe investigation commission, whose opinion considers the former socialist presidents of the Junta Manuel Chaves, José Antonio Griñán politically responsible and Susana Diaz.

The Andalusian president, Juan Manuel Moreno (PP), began his electoral campaign in 2018 at the gates of the Don Ángelo brothel, where Villén allegedly spent 25,000 euros.

The former director, also former Secretary of Employment of the Andalusian PSOE, is accused of hiding the diversion of funds in collusion with Anna Valls, "after devising a system by which the reimbursements of the aforementioned charges made by the accused were simulated."

That is, to fake the reimbursement of the money spent to the public coffers, both former directors used the Faffe box with false expenses, camouflaged as income to include them in the accounting, according to the judge.

In the daily books of the public company, the police investigation discovered entries of accounting refunds of the charges made for the exact amount spent, with concepts such as "FV income" and "FV visa refund".

The cash entries were made a few days after the irregular expenses occurred.

In this way, the former economic director was able to "cooperate or cover up" with Villén, "thus being able to have participated in the preparation, use or manipulation of commercial or accounting documentation, in order to simulate the return of illicitly used funds," reads the auto.

The Anti-Corruption Prosecutor's Office, in its indictment, harshly charged Villén: "With contempt for the most elementary duties of his position and to the detriment of the funds that his position forced him to dispose of and administer, he satisfied his lewd desires in premises of alternate (…) Sometimes he even organized orgies with unidentified third parties.”

The former manager admitted in his statement that he had "indecent" behavior, but alleged that he had returned all the money to the Faffe box.

The Board created the Faffe in 2003 under the presidency of Chaves and dissolved it during the mandate of his successor Griñán.

The entity accumulates expenses for 55 million without justification, according to the Andalusian Chamber of Accounts, and the court case accumulates several pieces in instruction.