Granada Council relates the Alhambra fraud case with the ERE cases in Seville

GRANADA – The case of fraudulent tickets to the Alhambra was first discovered last year and, in true Spanish judiciary fashion, has only recently come to court. (More on the case coming soon, but it involves alleged irregularities in the sale of tickets and access control). The case has now taken a political turn, after the city Council wrote to the judge earlier in the week, alleging that political responsibilities are ‘evidently’ of the PSOE (in opposition in Granada) and the Junta de Andalucía. The letter, by Juan García Montero, Councillor for Culture and spokesperson for the Council, also demands

a judicial enquiry of the trust that runs the famous tourist attraction. The Council called the case ‘unusual’, adding that the ‘accounts are not clear’, something he qualified as ‘horrifying’. He even made a so far unproven connection with another scandal at the Junta: the ERE case (about which another explanatory article coming soon).

There are some 45 people impugned  in the Alhambra case, for whom the prosecutor has requested between four and nine year jail terms. It has been calculated that the fraud has caused the Alhambra Trust some €6.6 million, of which €3.5mm are because of ‘irregular access’, and the remaining €3.16 in ‘material damages’ to the magnificent Nazari site.

(Ed. Note: The corruption scandals involving most political parties, not all but especially the PSOE and PP, are coming fast and furious – to the point that it is almost impossible for a single writer to keep up with. This writer is almost ashamed of loving Spain as much as he does…)