After leaving the Region of Murcia, the former president of the Community, Pedro Antonio Sánchez, acquired a home worth $540,000 in a residential complex in Miami, according to the local newspaper. The opinion. Just half a year earlier, the Development Institute of the Region of Murcia (Info) granted him a grant worth 26,412.28 euros. A grant from the direct aid program for the self-employed and companies due to the COVID-19 crisis, non-refundable.
In Miami, with an abandoned store and receiving public aid: the life of Pedro Antonio Sánchez after politics
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The former president of the Community has been sentenced to three years in prison and 17 years of disqualification for the crimes of continued prevarication and falsehood in the framework of the ‘Auditorio case’. On the date he received this money from the Regional Government, he was already being investigated for this corruption plot.
According to La Opinión, Pedro Antonio Sánchez mortgaged his two residences located in the Region to meet the payments for the purchase of the home in Miami. But the properties, one located in the municipality of Murcia and a farm in Puerto Lumbreras, only add a value of 160,000 euros. A figure that is far from the half million euros that you would need to buy your latest acquisition in the United States.
In the declaration of assets that he made while he was in office, in the year before the end of the last legislature, the former president declared 115,000 euros in credits and loans and less than 30,000 euros in his checking accounts. On the other hand, his savings or pension plans did not exceed 25,000 euros.
The company for which he received the aid, Tempori Parce SL, was created in 2017 as a consultancy seven months after the resignation of Pedro Antonio Sánchez as head of the Regional Executive after being charged in several corruption cases. It was not the only company that he created that year, he also founded Nosce Te Ipsum 2017 SL, which he later extinguished. The headquarters of both are located in Puerto Lumbreras, where he was mayor and orchestrated the corruption cases that have sentenced him in ‘Auditorio’. It is a local bicycle workshop that is currently closed, with a sign announcing that it is for rent. There is no indication that any kind of professional activity is being carried out at the headquarters.
