Five years in prison for the former head Balearic of Urban Development

Hearing of the Balearic Islands has sentenced to five years in prison for crimes of falsehood and prevarication former director of the Urban Planning of the Balearic Islands, Jaume Massot, and seven years' disqualification from public office to the popular former mayor of Andratx Eugenio Hidalgo by prevarication. The sentence is for the trial held in the Second Division of the Provincial Court of the Balearic Islands, between 27 and Oct. 30 in the second leg of the 68 that make up the so-called 'case Andratx', for the construction of a restaurant in protected zone by the brother of former mayor, Juan Carlos Hidalgo. The hearing has been sentenced to Juan Carlos Hidalgo to one year and six months' imprisonment for forgery of an official document, as well as another three months in prison for planning prevarication, that penalty can be replaced by a fine of 3,600 euros. Massot, director general of Land in the last legislature, was also sentenced to 8 years' disqualification from public office or employment for the crimes mentioned above and must pay a fine of 12,000 euros. Eugenio Hidalgo has been acquitted of the crime of forgery of official document and prevarication and the brother of the former mayor of crime against the land-use planning. In addition, the judges of the Second Section of the High Court has sentenced to Massot and Juan Carlos Hidalgo to pay two-eighths of the costs of the trial, and Eugenio Hidalgo to one-eighth, and have officially declared the five remaining parts. The penalty is less than the request of the Anti-Corruption Prosecutor's Office for seven years in prison for Eugenio Hidalgo and Massot, and five and a half years for Juan Carlos Hidalgo. Specifically, the Public Ministry had requested five years to Massot and the former mayor on charges of forgery, and two years for both urban prevarication. In the case of Juan Carlos Hidalgo called for three years and six months for the crimes of falsehood and prevarication, respectively, and two for the crime against the land-use planning. The sentence is evident that Juan Carlos Hidalgo "is vividly reflected the qualification of rustic land and its status as protected as Natural Area of Special Interest (ISNA), but still proceeded" to carry out the works, construction and reforms necessary to change the use of existing housing and turn it into a restaurant. " The order states that Juan Carlos Hidalgo and his brother, then alderman of Urban Development, convinced Jaume Massot, who was head of the Department of Urban Planning of the City Council of Baguio, "to carry out those administrative actions were necessary or desirable, even if they were illegal, for obtain such a purpose. " The sentence is evident that Massot issued certificates as well as building permits and activity to make possible the construction of the restaurant, knowing that he was in a protected area, and later avoided a fine of Consell de Mallorca, arguing that the City Council and handled a record penalty for that building and legalized the work. The judicial process began on November 5, 2007, on the complaint lodged by the Prosecutor's Office of the High Court of Baleares (TSJIB) before the magistrate's court number 12 in Palma, against Eugenio Hidalgo, Jaume Massot and Juan Carlos Hidalgo. The Anti-Corruption Prosecutor's Office accused them of continuing in an official document forgery committed by official prevarication town and a crime against the land-use planning, the construction of an Italian restaurant in a rustic farm land classified as protected category of ISNA.