MALLORCA TODAY - Ex-tourism minister Nadal gets four year sentence

Miguel Nadal, former tourism minister and leading member of the discredited Unió Mallorquina party, has been sentenced to four years imprisonment for embezzling public funds. He has been found guilty of channelling 13,000 euros for non-existent work to the former tourism councillor in Sóller, Tómas Plomer, through the now defunct Inestur agency (that was within the tourism ministry). Plomer has received a one-year sentence and the former director of Inestur, Antoni Oliver, a sentence of eighteen months. Oliver, it might be recalled, was also a Pollensa politician about whom questions have been raised in the past in respect of funding for the Pollensa festival. Nadal has already been sentenced to a term of two years and seven months for his part in the so-called "caso Maquillaje".

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MALLORCA TODAY - Muro's treasury department to be investigated

Further to reports some months ago that audits of town hall finances had revealed that some 10,000 euros were missing, Muro town hall has forwarded information to the local equivalent of the DPP which will investigate an alleged embezzlement centred on the town's treasury.