The Mijas Town Hall appears in the UCO (Central Operative Unit, an elite investigative unit within Spain's Civil Guard, specializing in complex cases involving among others, corruption offenses) report that uncovers the alleged corruption scheme involving former Socialist Transport Minister José Luis Ábalos, his adviser Koldo García, and the now former PSOE Organisation Secretary Santos Cerdán. In a WhatsApp conversation dated 28th October 2022 between Koldo and a builder, the name Mijas comes up. In that message exchange with businessman José Ruz, who was leading the construction company Levantina, Ingeniería y Construcción, the Mijas Town Hall is mentioned when Ruz asked which "ganadería" (livestock) governed the council (refering to the political party), to which Koldo replied that it was the PSOE. At that time, Josele González was mayor.

Ruz was interested in Mijas, as reported by the newspaper Málaga Hoy, because he intended to bid, as heeventually did, for the public tender to build the Los Santos car park in Las Lagunas. He submitted a proposal, but the contract was awarded to another company for submitting a better bid according to the established evaluation criteria. The contract was worth more than 14 million euros and Ruz made the second lowest bid, at 13.2 million euros. The company that won the contract submitted a bid worth 12.9 million euros.

The conversations revealed in the UCO report have sparked major controversy in national politics. Although the opposition, ledby Alberto Núñez Feijóo, called for  the immediate resignation of Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez, who refused and announced that he will not bring the general election forward.

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