At this moment there is a police operation of the Superior Police Headquarters open in Melilla, within the framework of the judicial investigation for the case of votes by mail, with 10 searches in various parts of the city and nine detainees (three yesterday and six today ), as reported by the Government Delegation in the Autonomous City. The agents, as LA RAZÓN has learned, have found undeposited votes by mail and a lot of money in the records. The headquarters of the Coalition for Melilla (CPM) is among the places subject to search by court order.
Among those arrested would be the son-in-law of the CPM leader (Mustafá Aberchán), a person known as Abdul Lobo, according to different sources, although it could not be officially confirmed, and number 3 on the CPM lists, Mohamed Ahmed Al-lal.
Mohamed Ahmed Al-lal is currently the councilor for Districts, Youth and Citizen Participation in the Melilla government and was vice-councillor for New Technologies.
Although the investigations are kept secret, the agents reportedly identified some of those who cast numerous votes at the same time before the Central Electoral Board prohibited doing so. Or those who have been offering money to voters.
Among the nine arrested, some in the conflictive Cañada de Hidun (jihadism, drug trafficking), there could be individuals related to the retail sale of hashish. Most are of Melilla origin, although there are some Moroccans. They were common criminals known by the National Police, according to the Autonomous City media. Among the 10 records, one has been made on the Farhana road, specifically in a recording studio.
The investigations of the alleged fraud, already prosecuted, are carried out by the National Police and it was assumed that they would not take long to give results. Melilla is a 12-square-kilometer city, where everyone knows everyone, and what yesterday was suspicion that spread by word of mouth today has become evidence that will be presented before the judicial authority.
The large amount of money that the alleged criminal organization that has led all this has moved (there has been talk of a million euros) and the origin of it, which some place in the world of crime, is worrying. In any case, guesswork until there are no police results.
The procedure was as simple as going to the areas where the most economically vulnerable people live, such as the aforementioned Cañada, and asking them to request a vote by mail. Once they received the envelope with the ballot papers and the certificate necessary to cast the vote, they bought it from them in exchange for between 50 and 200 euros; They put the vote of the party in which they acted and, since the presentation of the DNI was not necessary, the members of the criminal organization did it, or tried to do it, with authentic “sacks”. Deliveries of up to 10 votes at a time have been detected.
But, once the electoral and police measures were taken, fraud has become enormously complicated. The question is required. What will happen to the 10,405 votes that can be cast by mail, having been requested, and which have not yet been deposited at the Post Office? Are they mostly in the hands of their rightful owners or, as suspected, in the hands of the criminal group? Will they look for some way so that they can be issued by their legitimate owners or will they go directly to abstention? How to “repatriate” those who have been sent to the peninsula? It is believed that many of these votes may now go to abstention.
