Palma.There was a huge media presence outside the Palma High Court yesterday because the former leader of the now defunct Majorcan Unionist Party, Parliamentary Speaker, and President of the Council of Majorca, Maria Antonia Munar, and the former Minister for Tourism and one time leader of the UM Party and Vice President of the Council of Majorca, Miguel Nadal, had their first day in court for the hearing into the so called Operation Make Up case.
This latest political scandal focuses on the alleged misappropriation of Council of Majorca funds and yesterday, one of the accused, the founder of the TV production company Video U, revealed that Nadal's plan was to set up a FOX style TV station which would be ideologically favourable to the UM Party. Miguel Oliver said that in 2003 he decided to sell half of his stake in the company because of ill health and because he had been black listed by the then Balearic President Jaume Matas, so government contracts had all but dried up.
What the case intends to do is get to the bottom of why Oliver eventually received two grants worth a total 240'000 euros from the Council of Majorca and why he was obliged to hire 16 people who were actually already working for the Council of Majorca.
According to Oliver, Munar and Nadal intended on taking a 25 percent stake each but they apparently used front men to do all their business with the production company. I knew Nadal was behind it but I never suspected Munar, he told the court.
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