Hospitalet de Llobregat City Council

February-2024

This action has had the purpose of investigating several facts. Firstly, a possible case of irregular use of public funds resulting from the recognition, by means of a plenary agreement, of all municipal officials who had earned three-year terms in different groups or subgroups, the right to receive all three-year terms in the amount of the group or subgroup to which they were integrated at that time. Secondly, whether the irregularities noted by the Municipal General Auditor in several reports of permanent financial control were due to fraudulent action attributable to those responsible for managing the City Council's human and budgetary resources. Both investigated facts have been filed, given that despite certain irregularities and deficiencies having been detected in the investigative action in relation to the payment of remuneration, the truth is that aforementioned irregularities do not result from fraudulent or corrupt action, which is the specific scope of action of this Office, but are limited to a more specific area, that of merely irregular actions, contrary to the principle of good public management.