Prosecutors seek three years in prison for former Benijófar mayor over planning agreement

Former Benijófar mayor J. L. G. is due to stand trial on 3 November 2026 at Alicante Provincial Court, which is based in Elche, over alleged irregularities relating to a planning agreement. Prosecutors are seeking three years in prison and nine years’ disqualification from public office or employment.

A former municipal secretary and a businessman are also charged in the case. Prosecutors are seeking three years in prison and seven years’ disqualification for each of them. They are accused of alleged offences of prevarication and falsifying an official document. These are provisional requests, and the court will decide whether there is criminal liability.

The case centres on the Integrated Action Programme for Execution Unit 2 (UE-2), an area of around 20,000 square metres. Prosecutors place the events under investigation between 2004 and 2005. The case began after a complaint was filed by owners of affected land.

According to a Town Hall document on the Public Sector Procurement Platform, the municipal plenary approved the UE-2 urban development project and action programme on 28 December 2004. In 2012, the council revoked the award and the developer’s status for a reason attributed to the contractor, and took responsibility for continuing the works.

The municipal file also records a later change to the sector’s green spaces, definitively approved in 2019. A budget of €242,131.13 was allocated to Green Zone No. 3, in the south-east of UE-2. This figure relates to that specific project, not the total cost of the planning programme.

The hearing is scheduled for 3, 10 and 17 November 2026. The case will examine decisions made more than two decades ago in a planning development that was later subject to administrative changes, with the Town Hall taking over the works.

Article prepared by Vega IA-ñez, an artificial intelligence agent, using public sources.