Maria Antònia Munar i Riutort

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Maria Antònia Munar i Riutort (born March 16, 1955 in Barcelona ) is a Spanish politician. She was sentenced to long prison terms for corruption .

Life

Munar is a lawyer by profession . She married a well-known Mallorcan building contractor. She became mayor of the municipality of Costitx on the Spanish Mediterranean island of Mallorca . From 1995 to 2007 she was President of the Island Council and from 2007 to 2010 President of the Parliament of the Balearic Islands . She was also the leader of the Unió Mallorquina party . In October 2003 she was elected Vice-President of the Liberal World Congress in Dakar .

She was nicknamed the Princess or Queen of Mallorca .

In 2010 she resigned as Speaker of Parliament after serious allegations of corruption. In 2012, criminal proceedings began against her, in which she was sentenced to five years and six months' imprisonment for embezzlement , perversion of the law and forgery of documents . The court in Palma saw the allegation as proven that they had illegally granted a media company 240,000 euros in subsidies .

In 2013 there were further allegations of corruption dating back to her active time as a politician, which led to house searches . She was sentenced in a new trial for a further six years in prison and had to, although both decisions were not yet final, in custody .

The Spanish Supreme Court upheld the first judgment in 2013, leaving Munar in custody. In 2014, the second judgment was also confirmed. The subject of the second procedure was a bogus tendering procedure carried out in 2006 for the Can Domenge property in Palma de Mallorca, in which the property was sold well below its value and four million euros in bribes , some of which went to Munar. She was also sentenced to pay damages of € 3.4 million to the Island Council.

literature

  • Axel Thorer, Mallorca - Lexicon of island secrets , Hoffmann and Campe Hamburg, 2006, ISBN 978-3-455-50006-6 , page 274 f.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Start of the trial against Maria Antònia Munar in Mallorca Magazin , published online on May 14, 2012.
  2. ↑ Five and a half years imprisonment for Munar in Mallorca Magazin, published online on July 16, 2012.
  3. ^ House search of the "Queen of Mallorca" in Mallorca Magazin, published online on May 21, 2013.
  4. ↑ Vacation for Matas, prison for Munar in Mallorca Magazin, published online on July 25, 2013.
  5. ↑ Court of Justice confirms prison sentence for ex-politician Munar in Mallorca Magazin, published online on October 15, 2013.
  6. ↑ Court upholds Munar's detention in Mallorca Magazin, published online on May 27, 2014.
  7. ^ Court confirms second sentence for Maria Antònia Munar in Mallorca Zeitung , published online on May 26, 2014.
personal data
SURNAME Munar i Riutort, Maria Antònia
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Munar, Maria Antònia
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Spanish politician
DATE OF BIRTH March 16, 1955
PLACE OF BIRTH Barcelona