{"id":4306,"date":"2026-04-14T12:04:13","date_gmt":"2026-04-14T12:04:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/4306\/"},"modified":"2026-04-14T12:04:13","modified_gmt":"2026-04-14T12:04:13","slug":"valencia-mayor-faces-corruption-probe-for-undue-influence-in-handing-out-jobs-to-preferred-candidates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/4306\/","title":{"rendered":"Valencia mayor faces corruption probe for &#8216;undue influence&#8217; in handing out jobs to &#8216;preferred&#8217; candidates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>VALENCIA\u2019S mayor Maria Jose Catala and other key city officials are being investigated by the Anti-Corruption Prosecutor\u2019s Office for allegedly fixing job appointments.<\/p>\n<p>Also under the spotlight is the president of Valencia\u2019s Port Authority, Mar Chao, as well as the councillor for Tourism and Innovation, Paula Llobet, and the Education, Equality and Sports councillor, Rocio Gil.<\/p>\n<p>Four council employees are also being probed for the alleged crimes of prevarication and influence peddling.<\/p>\n<p>READ MORE:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"299\" height=\"169\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/mar-chao.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-482100\" style=\"aspect-ratio:1.7692492204365555;width:501px;height:auto\"  \/>MAR CHAO<\/p>\n<p>The investigation started after a complaint made in February by the regional left-wing party, Compromis, over the way personnel was being appointed by Valencia City Council.<\/p>\n<p>It queried the way vacancies were filled by staff belonging to the \u2018Valencia 2007 Consortium\u2019 which managed the Marina de Valencia area between Playa de las Arenas and the Port.<\/p>\n<p>The consortium- made up of national and regional government representatives as well as the City Council- was dissolved in 2024.<\/p>\n<p>Compromis has made accusations that underhand job selection processes to \u2018relocate certain people\u2019 took place involving the council, municipal foundations, and the Port Authority.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"427\" height=\"320\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/papi-robles.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-482106\" style=\"width:505px;height:auto\"  \/>PAPI ROBLES- COMPROMIS<\/p>\n<p>The complaint also included a report from the General Intervention of the State Administration (IGAE) that was critical about job selection methods at the Port of Valencia.<\/p>\n<p>Compromis spokesperson at the City Council, Papi Robles, said: \u201cIt is no coincidence that several municipal foundations and the Port of Valencia itself advertised almost identical positions on the same dates to cover vacancies.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Click here to read more <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theolivepress.es\/spain-news\/category\/valencia\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Valencia News<\/a> from The Olive Press.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"VALENCIA\u2019S mayor Maria Jose Catala and other key city officials are being investigated by the Anti-Corruption Prosecutor\u2019s Office&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4307,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[3133,102,3134,59,60,62,95,3135],"class_list":["post-4306","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-valencia","tag-corruption-probe","tag-crime","tag-job-appointments","tag-news-spain","tag-newspaper","tag-the-olive-press","tag-valencia","tag-valencia-mayor-maria-jose-catala"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4306","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4306"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4306\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4307"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}