Everything in life has consequences, and decisions that at first seem free can be very expensive and if you don’t ask a businessman who faces three and a half years in prison for, supposedly, not returning a payment of more than 341,000 euros that he received by mistake in his bank account by the City Council of the Alicante town of Novelda.
© Getty ImagesThe accused, who is the administrator of a construction company, will know what his fate will be on October 3 when he is tried in the second section of the Provincial Court of Alicanteas the newspaper points out ABCafter more than 16 years of waiting and uncertainty.
And according to the prosecution’s brief, the incident dates back to September 2, 2008 when this man received the money as payment for carrying out the works on the Dance Conservatory due to an “administrative error” by the Alicante Municipal Council.
© Getty ImagesHowever, two more years had to pass before the error was detected in 2010 by the Bank of Spain when he claimed the money that had been transferred from the City Council. It was at that precise moment when the council was aware of its mistake and denounced the businessman, who is accused of a crime of misappropriation.
And as the German psychoanalyst and philosopher said, Eric Fromm: “Every decision we make transforms us into what we are, they constitute the life we choose and in that way we are what we think, what we choose to think and what we choose to do.”
