The former president of the Provincial Council and former president of the PP of Valencia, Alfonso Rus, has ignored the extinct public firm Imelsa and Ciegsa and has denied having dedicated any sort of irregularity: “he by no means” employed ‘zombies’, he stated, nor gave orders about it.
Rus has made this assertion throughout his assertion in elements B and F of the Imelsa case, for which he faces 12 years in jail for the crimes of belonging to a legal group, a continued crime of embezzlement of public funds, administrative prevarication and of falsehood in an official doc dedicated by a public official, as claimed by the Prosecutor’s Office.
In this process there are a complete of 25 defendants and 11 of them have acknowledged the information attributed to them in change for seeing their sentences lowered to 14 months in jail.
He solely solutions to his legal professionals
Rus, throughout his assertion, which didn’t take greater than half an hour since he solely wished to reply the questions requested by his legal professionals, the Pérez Mora brothers, insisted that in his time within the Diputación –from 2007 to 2015 — He was additionally president of Imelsa however didn’t make hiring choices.
In truth, he has given for example that the then supervisor of Imelsa Marcos Benavent, self-styled ‘cash junkie’, was appointed by the council on the proposal of the PP: “The public prosecutor’s workplace can say what it desires. It was not a unilateral resolution.” has underlined.
Regarding Benavent, he defined that he considers that he was a “match” particular person for the place and has careworn that there was “no battle” in his eight years of labor in an organization with some 700 or 800 employees. “The opposition gave him the wave. Then Benavent separated and issues that occur…”, he added.
Rus has recalled that it was in December 2014 when Benavent approached him at a meal and requested him to fireplace him as a result of “he was not effectively”. “He requested me to fireplace him to gather for the eight years labored. Since the cash was not mine, I instructed him that I couldn’t settle for, that I didn’t have to provide him 100 or 40 or 80. I used to be not going to throw it away. I requested him to depart in my workplace if he wished to depart”, he narrated.
“On the twenty sixth of that month he went to Ecuador and I already needed to appoint a brand new supervisor at Imelsa,” Rus defined, including that after his departure they denounced “some embezzlement” within the Prosecutor’s Office that he did within the public firm .
“Ceded Powers”
Rus has repeated that his powers in Imelsa had been ceded to a deputy, that of Companies, and has identified that when he arrived on the public firm he withdrew all VISA playing cards and lowered the facility to contract with out competitors to 50,000 euros — they had been 200,000 euros–. “This must be carried out because it must be carried out”, he has affirmed that he thought at that second.
Asked if he employed ‘zombies’ in Imelsa, like former Xàtiva Olympian participant Miguel Ángel Mullol, he answered “by no means”. “All these I’ve employed have been for the Provincial Council cupboard, not for Imelsa. And those that had been in my cupboard got here day by day, from 9 a.m. to 9:30 p.m. Those who had been with me both labored like that or went to the streets “, he indicated.
Regarding Mullol, he has indicated that there was no favorable remedy with him and that he didn’t signal him: “They should show that,” he said. He has additionally stated that if it had been a standard observe for Olímpic gamers to receives a commission from Imelsa, “there would have been extra gamers”, and added that Mullol was associated to the PP as a result of he was on the Ontinyent listing.
Finally and in abstract, Rus has indicated that he was not knowledgeable concerning the actions in Imelsa since “that is what the CEO was there for,” he stated. About Ciegsa he has said that he had nothing to do with it: “I solely ordered those that had been in my cost, within the Provincial Council and within the Xàtiva City Council, nothing extra. I’m answerable for these individuals. I’m not answerable for what the others employed “, has affected.