Overview
- On Tuesday, June 23, 2026, Óscar Martínez Álvarez agreed in a court hearing to a nine-year inhabilitation for prevaricación linked to the verbal award of three small municipal works.
- The works were carried out in Camiño As Fontiñas, Praza Cruceiro-Baíña and a Cruceiro pavement and cost just over €34,700 in total, according to the Fiscalía's accusation.
- Prosecutors say Martínez bypassed legal procurement steps by ordering the jobs verbally without formal contracts, budgets, technical reports or prior justification, and the town hall later refused to pay the invoices for those irregularities.
- Martínez had already accepted a separate nine-year inhabilitation in January 2026 for similar 'adjudicación a dedo' conduct, making this a repeated judicial sanction that was resolved via a Fiscalía defence plea agreement to avoid a full trial.
- The penalty removes his right to run for office and to hold posts with contracting authority, raises questions about oversight in the previous Carlos Gómez Prado municipal government, and could prompt closer review of local procurement controls and past payments.