The Anti-Corruption Prosecutor's Office has initiated investigation proceedings against the mayor of Valencia, María José Catalá, and the president of the Port, Mar Chao, for a possible crime of malfeasance linked to an alleged "reassignment" of public employees "by direct appointment".
As The Objective has advanced and Europa Press has been able to corroborate, these preliminary actions extend to Catalá, Chao, councilwomen Rocío Gil and Paula Llobet, as well as to four public employees, for alleged crimes of malfeasance and influence peddling. According to a decree from the Prosecutor's Office dated March 11, a prosecutor in charge of the case has already been appointed.
The origin of these investigations is located in a complaint from the municipal group Compromís of Valencia, related to the creation of new positions in different municipal entities destined for personnel coming from the Valencia 2007 Consortium, an already extinguished body that managed La Marina and in which the Government, the Generalitat, and the City Council participated.
According to The Objective, in the spring of 2024, when the Consortium was in liquidation, several selection processes were launched in the City Council, in municipal foundations and in the Port that would have had as their purpose to "relocate" certain people.
The complaint filed by Compromís also incorporated a report from the General Intervention Board of the State Administration (IGAE) in which the selective processes developed at the Port of Valencia were questioned.