The sagas of land deals go on and on in Spain .This time it is the mother of the Mayor of Orcheta who is involved .It appears that she sold rustic land to a developer at development land prices in 2004 on the proviso that when the land was reclassified she would have the initial payment topped up by the developer .
The company involved was Construcciones Valencia Constitucion SL and they gave a down payment of 196,000 euros for the land , 10 % of its value when it was reclassified under the town plan .This was to be paid once the reclassification took place .
This has all been discovered when certain documents came to light , showing that there was a plot to commit urban development corruption in Orcheta by buying up land at low prices and then selling it for inflated prices to developers on the understanding that the PGOU town plan was amended and the land reclassified .
The Mayor and his urban development councillor have been implicated in a plot in which the urban development councillor is alleged to have sold almost a million square metres of land to another company , under the same conditions as the mother of the Mayor .The Mayor says that he knows nothing of these contracts and thateven if they did exist they would now be out of date .
This case is still ongoing .
