Ángeles Muñoz: The mayoress of Marbella justifies the increase in her wealth through a donation from her husband | Spain

The mayoress of Marbella (Málaga, 150,725 inhabitants), Ángeles Muñoz, has informed the Senate that the recent change in her assets is due to “a donation of shares” made by her husband, Lars Gunnar Broberg, who died last March. In a letter presented this Tuesday, April 11, the PP councilor reports that the changes that occur in July 2020 are due to a family situation of serious illness that occurred in the spring of that year and that they are registered in the Mercantile Registry and the Junta de Andalucía. She also informed the Upper House in November 2022 at the time that she told her that she should do so “during the legislature and not at its end.” “There is absolutely no irregularity,” Muñoz emphasizes in the document delivered to the Commission open at the request of the PSOE that seeks to clarify whether the councilor violated the Senate’s code of conduct by not declaring all her assets at the beginning of the legislature.

The update of the declaration of assets of the mayoress of Marbella, carried out in mid-November last year, came just a month after the National Court prosecuted her husband and his son, Joakim Broberg, for a plot related to drug trafficking and money laundering. It included the increase in the ownership of various assets, such as a house in Sweden, which became 100% owned while before it was 50% owned, as was the case with other properties —a plot, a berth and an industrial warehouse— of those who went from having half to their full possession. The notification to the Senate unleashed a political storm at the local level, making the atmosphere even more difficult in the Marbella Town Hall, and also at the regional level. “I don’t know their origins, but I’m sure they are lawful and legal,” the president of the Junta de Andalucía, Juan Manuel Moreno Bonilla, had to say, who later ratified Muñoz as a candidate for mayor in next month’s municipal elections. may because “other” to the causes against their relatives.

The PSOE later requested that the Upper House initiate an investigation to find out if the councilor had violated the Code of Conduct, a step that the body had never taken and that it committed, for the first time, in February of this year. Then a working group composed of different phases started. The first provided that the parties could request the documentation that was necessary to clarify the matter and, in fact, the socialist party asked both her and the municipalities of Marbella and Benahavís —where Muñoz was a councilor— for different documents. One of them is the one that the councilor delivered this Tuesday, where she explains that the origin of the growth of her heritage is due to a donation from her husband in July 2020 as a result of the disease that was detected in March of that same anus. And that she carried out the procedures to inform both the Mercantile Registry and the Junta de Andalucía. “All my assets are declared to the Tax Agency, as stated in the statements of the Senate”, underlines the mayoress.

“All my assets are declared to the Tax Agency, as stated in the statements of the Senate”, underlines the first mayor. “Therefore, there is absolutely no irregularity. In any case, a modification that is registered as soon as they tell me that it is mandatory to do during the legislature and not at its end”, says Muñoz, who adds: “A situation in which, apparently, at least a dozen of Socialist senators, in their case once announced by their parliamentary group, who I understand should be required in the same way by this commission”. In addition, it highlights “the slanderous writing” of the PSOE in the Senate, with considerable that, to underline, they are carried out “knowing that they are false.” It refers to the attempt by the socialists to appear in the case against their relatives —which was opposed by both the Prosecutor’s Office and the magistrate because the city council has nothing to do with the case— as well as the different appeals presented before that decision, before which the Criminal Chamber of the Provincial Court made the same decision again because “at no time can any participation be attributed” to the Marbella town hall in the facts investigated.

“Therefore, I can only affirm that in my political experience I have never seen a document presented before this Chamber with a greater number of defamatory assessments, lies and dishonorable comments whose sole objective is to intensify the PSOE’s campaign of harassment towards this and senator the electoral strategy of trying to cloud the image of the municipal government, the City Council and the city of Marbella”, concludes Muñoz.

The Socialists have held an act this morning in the town of Malaga where their spokesperson in Congress, Patxi López, defended the candidacy of José Bernal for mayor of Marbella. “It is time for Marbella to recover its dignity at the hands of the socialists and at the hands of José Bernal”, López said in statements collected by Europa Press, which has said that Ángeles Muñoz does not answer questions about her heritage. “What she is doing is obstructing the investigation itself,” he pointed out. Bernal, for his part, has demanded explanations about “the connections of the Marbella City Council with this matter that is being judged in the National Court of drug trafficking, money laundering and criminal organization”, making ugly the councilor who “did not even open her mouth ” in the last extraordinary plenary session where the issue was addressed last Holy Wednesday, when the Popular Party with the support of Ciudadanos knocked down any possibility that Muñoz would explain the changes in his heritage.