Alex Trelinski
THE former Spanish government special commissioner appointed to oversee reconstruction following last October’s floods in Valencia is in hospital after trying to take his life.
Jose Maria Angel, 68, is being investigated by Anti-Corruption prosecutors over whether he faked a University of Valencia degree in the early eighties to help him get a civil servant job for the Valencia Provincial Council.
He resigned from his role last week.
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The Las Provincias newspaper reported that a resident walking in l’Eliana(Valencia province) around breakfast time raised the alarm about a man behaving strangely close to the cemetery.
The cemetery is around a kilometre away from Jose Maria Angel’s house and the woman recognised and knew him.
Emergency services were called at 8.48am.
It was reported that Maria Angel never lost consciousness but was nevertheless in a serious state as he was taken to Lliria Hospital.
The former socialist mayor of l’Eliana for over 20 years is said to be in a ‘stable’ condition.
The Valencian Anti-Fraud Agency instigated a probe into Maria Angel after receiving an anonymous complaint in April and has passed on a file to the prosecutor’s office.
He has consistently denied allegations of spicing up his CV with a degree that he never received.
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