ex Mayor of Marbella, Jesús Gil y Gil’s children have been ordered by the Tribunal de Cuentas to return more than 100 million € to the accounts of Marbella Town Hall.

ex Mayor of Marbella, Jesús Gil y Gil’s children have been ordered by the Tribunal de Cuentas to return more than 100 million € to the accounts of Marbella Town Hall.

News has only just emerged about the ruling which was emitted on April 12, and which places the estimated damage suffered by the Town Hall at 66.5 million €. To that sum more than 39 million € has been added in interest.

The four children have been deemed to be directly responsible for the accounting irregularities in the Town Hall between 1994 and 1999, and are named as Jesús, Miguel Ángel, Fernando and María Ángeles Gil Marín. Also facing a payment is the ex deputy Mayor, Pedro Román, and the ex GIL councillors, Marisa Alcalá, Rafael González, Antonio Luque and the ex Mayor Julián Muñoz.

The Tribunal de Cuentas considers that the death of Jesús Gil y Gil did not end the civil responsibility in the case, and that this was transmitted to his ‘beneficiaries as being directly responsible for succession’.

The case originated with a demand for accounting responsibility placed by the Ministry for Hacienda in November 2005, which was added to by action from the Town Hall itself three years later when Ángeles Muñoz had taken over control for the Partido Popular.