The Civil Guard is investigating, by order of the Investigating Court quantity 13 of Valenci, whether or not senior officers of the Ministry of the Environment in the course of the presidency of the socialist José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero collected bribes in trade for the general public entity making favorable experiences on the city developments of curiosity to numerous development firms within the Valencian Community.
The piece, opened final August, hyperlinks a number of officers of the Socialist Party of the Valencian Country (PSPV) with the alleged assortment of presents in trade for influencing public administrations between 2007 and 2008. The case started with the alleged assortment of commissions within the Valencia City Council, in what was referred to as the Azud operation, however it led to different operations and administrations.
As this newspaper reported, the brokers detected an alleged plot of builders who allegedly and illegally paid marketing campaign bills for the PSOE within the Valencian Community throughout these years. In the middle of those operations, the experiences of the Civil Guard place the previous treasurer of the occasion within the Valencian Community, José María Cataluña. Investigators preserve that even if Catalonia formally relinquished management of the occasion’s funds in 2004, he continued to hold out development operations in favor of political formation a while later. In truth, they positioned him in a gathering in April 2006 by which the concession of a contract of 46 million euros for the development of a piece of the Júcar-Vinaolopó switch was allegedly agreed. When the Civil Guard entered the house of the previous PSPV treasurer, they discovered an envelope with alleged notes on the quantity that the businesses needed to pay as a fee on that work.
In that particular award, the Axis Group, one of many foremost events investigated within the plot, related to Acciona. According to the experiences of the Armed Institute, the brokers positioned within the registry of the Valencian development firm an e mail crossed with its companions on February 28, 2006, the date of publication of that tender, the place the then head of Acciona within the space “calls for” its companions “that part E be awarded to them”, as mirrored by the inspecting Justice of the Peace in his information. According to that very same e mail, “stated award may have an financial counterpart”, presumably paid by the nationwide development firm to 2 senior positions, then within the General Secretariat for Territory and Biodiversity of the Ministry of Environment. “It is indicated that within the occasion that Acciona accepts the requirement, public officers comply with assist the award of the stretch, which lastly occurred.”
Reported however not investigated
Thus, the investigators suspect that he mediated cash for the award of this million-dollar work, one thing that the protection of the investigated development firms have emphatically denied. In truth, and for the second, the decide accountable for the case has categorised these answerable for the 2 firms as being investigated, however not the high-ranking officers of the Ministry of the Environment indicated, for whom no extra concrete proof of those instances has but been discovered. prices.
However, the cash path from Grupo Axis was decisive in finding necessary funds from the development firm to the electoral marketing campaign of the Valencian PSOE within the municipal elections of 2007 and within the basic elections of 2008, by, amongst different suppliers of, a producer of promotional merchandise. primarily based in Castellón.
In addition, the brokers mirror of their experiences that the three way partnership awarded this massive contract spent 112,000 euros on Christmas presents, “together with Aquamed as a enterprise precedence.” Among the checklist of recipients, which comprises simply over 400 names, there are 73 folks straight linked to public administrations, each regional and nationwide. For the second, the decide accountable for the case considers that there are “stable indications” of the “live performance” between the top of the Áxis group and Joan José Moragues, former president of the Júcar Hydrographic Confederation.