Juan Antonio Roca kept his promise to tell the truth from now on in court on Thursday when he once again sat alongside former colleagues Julián Muñoz and Pedro Román, this time for the Belmonsa trial. All three admitted their guilt in this planning case in which they are accused of using their positions to favour the firm Belmonsa in a planning deal with the Town Hall. This allowed the defence lawyers and the public prosecutor to reach an agreement in which Roca accepted a nine month prison sentence and a fine of 2.4 million euros, or an extra month in jail if this is not paid. Muñoz accepted a year's prison sentence and Román an eight month ban on holding public office. The other former GIL councillors involved in the case, Manuel Calle, Mario Jiménez, Rafael González, José Miguel Pomares and Marisa Alcalá accepted penalties ranging from an eight year ban on holding public office to a year's prison sentence.

The only defendant who did not admit to the charges, the former lawyer of Jesús Gil y Gil, José Luis Sierra, did stand trial. He maintained that the legal report he drew up allowed for provisional licences to be awarded.

The Belmonsa case dates back to 1997 when the firm was granted permission to build a 12 storey building on a plot of land, of which part was reserved for a road. Roca, then head of the firm Planeamientos 2000, made a deal with the company which was later approved by the above-mentioned councillors. The municipal land on which Belmonsa later built 112 homes was valued at 83,800 euros when it was really worth more than two million.