The Prosecutor’s Office of Ibiza has filed a complaint against the administrators of Marina de Formentera, after the Port Authority of the Balearic Islands (APB) initiated a legal claim for the squatting of public facilities during the summer season 2022. a legal claim for the squatting during the summer season of 2022 public facilities without the corresponding without the corresponding authorization, as advanced by La Voz de Ibiza. The administrators are accused of the crimes of embezzlement of public funds, disobedience and usurpation, as confirmed from the judicial headquarters to this media. In the case of being judged, they face sentences of more than 12 years in prison. The Prosecutor’s request has already been accepted and has been submitted to the Court of Instruction No. 2 of Ibiza, in the framework of the procedure DPA 1377/24. The first step had been taken by the Board of Directors of the APB when on April 18 last “agreed to transfer to the Public Prosecutor’s Office the possible commission of several crimes by Marina de Formentera as a result of its refusal to return the port public domain that it illegally occupied”. In the resolution, to which La Voz de Ibiza had access, it is stated that it has been unanimously agreed the “proposal of communication to the Public Prosecutor of the actions related to the refusal of MDF (Marina de Formentera) to hand over the facilities of the administrative concession for the Management of mooring posts in the inner west dock of the port of La Savina“.
What they are accused of
This judicial opening has occurred because Marina de Formentera was squatting for almost five months. One day before the end of the concession on May 27, 2022, its managers announced that it would not leave the port facilities of the western dock of La Savina pending the resolution of the contentious appeal it had filed after the APB denied an extension for 35 years. In a press conference, the firm’s representative, Ángel Bustosaccompanied by the lawyer Francisco Javier Jiménez Cisnero Francisco Javier Jiménez Cisneros de Cid announced this decision and accused the APB of acting in a “discriminatory” manner by not granting an extension. For this reason, they had gone to the High Court of Justice of the Balearic Islands to reverse the APB’s decision of February 23, 2022 in which the extension of the concession was denied. With this, Marina de Formentera was transformed into a squatter during the whole summer season, the most profitable one and obtaining an important lucrative benefit, something that had never happened in the history of the APB.
For this reason, the president of the organization at the time, Francesc Antich, had to file an eviction laws uit with the Superior Court of Justice of the Balearic Islands (TSJB), since Marina Formentera did not have the necessary authorization to do so. This made it impossible for approximately four and a half months for Port Med Formentera, owned by Nicolás Mayol’s group, to evict the company. Nicolás Mayol, to take possession of the concession for the management of mooring places and premises in the inner west dock, which it had won in a public tender for the temporary occupation for a maximum of three years with an offer of 1.5 million euros, which tripled the starting fee of the tender. Only on October 4, 2022, Marina de Formentera announced that it was leaving of its own accord in view of the imminent forced eviction of the APB.
