Who owns this land?

The PP of Bigastro claims that 95% of the rustic ground in the inventory of the City council, which was approved in March, is still registered in the names of the original proprietors. This amounts to about 80,000 square metres of land valued at 3,000,000€.

Aurelio Murcia says that the land was acquired between 2002 and 2006 in exchange for allowing promoters to build higher by adding attics onto blocks of flats.  He suggests that,  not registering the land gives the mayor the  facility to "fiddle" i.e. to do whatever he wants without paying taxes for transmission. Murcia adds that whilst this land is not registered to the town, it is also out of the hands of creditors.