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Official in Charge of Valencia Flood Response Quits Over Fake Diploma
A senior Spanish government official has resigned amid a scandal over an allegedly fake university degree. José María Ángel Batalla, appointed last December to lead the reconstruction of Valencia after severe flooding, stepped down from all public roles on Thursday, including his position as president of the Socialist Party in the region. His resignation follows reports that Spain’s anti-corruption prosecutors are investigating whether he used a…
The government commissioner for the reconstruction of the DANA that left 228 dead in the province of Valencia last October, José María Ángel, resigned this Wednesday night after Agence Valenciana Antifraude accused him of having used a "presumably false" university degree to access his post of official. The current coordinator of the committee of experts for the reconstruction of the areas affected by the flood, Zulima Pérez Segui, will be the n…
José María Ángel leaves his post in the Executive and the presidency of the PSPV-PSOE so he considers a "political hunt" and will be replaced in the coordination tasks for the reconstruction by the former director general of Ximo de Puig Zulima PérezAnticorruption investigates whether the government commissioner for the dana falsified the title to become official The commissioner of the Spanish government for the reconstruction work after dana o…
The report of the Antifraud Agency of the Valencian Community, to which this newspaper has had access, concerning the government commissioner for dana, José María Ángel Batalla, concludes that the researcher did not finish his studies at the University of Valencia, and that, therefore, the title recorded in his personal file is “presumably false”.
The Ministry of Territorial Policy has requested the commissioner appointed by the Central Executive for the reconstruction of Dana, José María Ángel Batalla, the entire...
José María Ángel Batalla has resigned as commissioner of the government for the dana and as president of the PSPV-PSOE after publishing that justice is investigating whether he falsified a title of his résumé. The new commissioner will be Zulima Pérez, until now coordinator of the committee of experts to rebuild the areas affected by the dana, according to EFE. As for who will replace him at the head of the presidency of the PSPV-PSOE, from the …
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