Overview

• Antonio Torres, former mayor of Lebrija, was sentenced to 2 years and 3 months in prison for receiving over €359,000 in public funds without performing any work.
• Fernando Villén, ex-director of the Faffe foundation, received a 3-year, 6-month sentence for hiring Torres based solely on personal and political ties.
• Both men have been ordered to repay €359,973.51 jointly to the Junta de Andalucía as restitution for misappropriated funds.
• This marks the first prison sentences for nepotism within the PSOE-linked Faffe network, which operated from 2003 to 2011 with €300 million in subsidies.
• Investigations into at least 84 other irregular hires within Faffe remain ongoing under judicial scrutiny in Sevilla.