Manilva Town Hall has officially dismissed the person who, until yesterday, was the municipal legal adviser, after receiving a court order for the final enforcement of a sentence of special disqualification from all public office or employment for 21 months, handed down by the Provincial Court of Málaga and upheld by the Supreme Court.
The dismissal was formalised by Decree 2025-2329, signed on 11 December, after the council received a court notification on 10 December formally urging compliance with the ruling. The resolution was notified to the person concerned and to the various municipal departments on 12 December, according to the administrative documentation.
The sentence stems from ruling 231/22 of 7 June 2022, in which Menoyo was convicted as the person responsible for an offence of administrative malfeasance by necessary cooperation, in the context of a case relating to irregular hirings carried out at Manilva Town Hall between 2007 and 2013. The Supreme Court partially revised the ruling in September 2025, upholding the conviction and definitively setting the disqualification at 21 months, which is now final and enforceable.
The PP denounces the mayor’s inaction until the court order
After the dismissal decree was made public, the Partido Popular of Manilva issued a statement asserting that the mayor had previously ignored the PP’s request for the immediate enforcement of the Supreme Court’s final ruling.
According to the PP, its council group made the ruling available to the governing team and formally requested that the disqualification be enforced, warning that Supreme Court Ruling No. 714/2025 was binding and that failure to enforce it could constitute a legal and administrative irregularity. However, they say they have received no response from the Mayor’s Office.
In its statement, the PP maintains that the mayor kept the convicted official in his post despite knowing of the final ruling, acting only when the Town Hall received the court order formally urging its enforcement. For the PP, this shows that the municipal action took place «exclusively after the court order».
The PP also criticises the governing team for not informing either the council groups or residents about a matter it considers to be of «serious institutional importance», and points to an alleged lack of transparency and diligence in the handling of the case.
«Final rulings are not up for debate, they are complied with», the Partido Popular of Manilva stresses in its statement, which asserts that it will continue to defend legality, transparency and responsible municipal management at the service of residents.
Background: Supreme Court acquittal in another case in 2023
This new court episode adds to the complex legal history of A.M.C. In October 2023, the Supreme Court acquitted him of the offences of forgery of an official document and procedural fraud in a separate case, relating to the dismissal of a municipal employee in 2012.
In that ruling, the high court overturned the assessment of the evidence made by the Provincial Court of Málaga, finding that it had left the defendant defenceless, and concluded that the alleged acts did not constitute any offence, considering the legal report in question to be «harmless or inconsequential» and without any real bearing on the dismissal.
Appointment and earlier resignation
It should be recalled that one of the first things the Partido Popular did on taking the mayor’s office was to appoint A. M., on 21 August 2023, as manager of the Urban Planning department at Manilva Town Hall, although a month later he resigned, citing personal reasons. That appointment had already been publicly criticised by the opposition.
Compromiso Manilva, which to this day had kept him in positions of responsibility, publicly stated from the opposition that his appointment was seen «as a partisan choice, since it must be remembered that Mr A. M. is an active member of the group of unaffiliated councillors, not to mention that he currently has several judicial proceedings open, in some of which he has already been convicted. Menoyo is no example of anything, least of all transparency, management, impartiality and the fight against corruption. We are going back to Manilva’s dark era, where with Mr Menoyo hidden interests are flourishing again and the Urban Planning department is being run at his whim».
With the dismissal now formalised, Manilva Town Hall is finally enforcing a final criminal sentence, closing a new court chapter linked to one of the most controversial periods of municipal management of the last decade, which has dragged on in the courts.
