The former treasurer of the PP, Luís Bárcenas, implicated former PP ministers who handled businessmen who contributed to fattening the B accounting of the populars. Judge Pedraz thus responds to the request of the Anti-Corruption Prosecutor who requested the file 5 days in the past
The decide of the National Court, Santiago Pedraz, has archived the investigation into the alleged donations made by businessmen to the “B field” of the PP to acquire public contracts. The decide thus responds to the request that the Anti-Corruption Prosecutor had made 4 days in the past. The Public Ministry had taken into consideration to request the file a report from the General Intervention of the State Administration (IGAE) which concluded that no irregularities had been detected within the adjudication processes.
The file comes after the case was reopened 5 years in the past. The case, often called the “finalist commissions”, was initiated by decide Pablo Ruz in 2013, however he closed it two years later when he noticed no felony proof apart from the fee of the reform of the “common” headquarters in Genoa with these off-the-books funds. However, what was revealed by the chief of the ‘Gürtel’, Francisco Correa, through the trial for the primary interval of the corrupt plot allowed it to be reactivated.
The former treasurer of the PP Luis Bárcenas, who till then had denied it, confessed in a letter despatched to the Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office that among the donations made have been searching for awards. In his assertion on July 16, 2021 earlier than Pedraz, he immediately implicated all of the PP Ministers of Development and Environment by stating that they handled businessmen who contributed to this alleged unofficial accounting.
He recounted a selected episode that his predecessor within the PP Treasury, the late Álvaro Lapuerta, would have transmitted to him in his day. According to Bárcenas, Lapuerta went to the overall director of State Highways and the then minister, Francisco Álvarez Cascos, scolded him, indicating that he ought to at all times contact him for such issues.
That of the previous ‘common’ treasurer was the final assertion earlier than Pedraz ended the investigation part on July 29, 2021. Since then, the decide has been ready to obtain the newest report from the IGAE to determine the way forward for the trigger.
The report that concluded that there is no such thing as a crime
The report, dated November 4, analyzes over 94 pages the processing of the recordsdata to award numerous public contracts from the Ministries of Defense, Development and Environment, the Public Land Entity (SEPES) or AENA, amongst others, with out figuring out irregularities opposite to the rules of the time.
However, this report contrasts with people who the National Court has obtained lately. Thus, in a earlier one dated December 16, 2021, the Treasury technicians highlighted “very notable deviations” in a contract awarded in 2003 by the Ministry of the Environment to Constructora Hispánica SA, an organization investigated within the ‘Gürtel’ plot .
Specifically, it identified that the contract for the restoration and environmental restoration of the Marismas del Joyel, within the pure reserve of the Marismas de Santoña y Noja (Cantabria), which dates again to March 25, 2003, was closed for an quantity of 1,492,152 euros. The IGAE noticed an additional value of 28,633.39 euros, 1.74% of the contract, which already had a modified 9.99%, so it might exceed the restrict proportion and would have required the report from the Services Inspection.
The case
The case, often called the “finalist commissions”, was initiated by decide Pablo Ruz in 2013, however he closed it two years later when he noticed no felony proof apart from the fee of the reform of the “common” headquarters in Genoa with these off-the-books funds. However, what was revealed by the chief of the ‘Gürtel’, Francisco Correa, through the trial for the primary interval of the corrupt plot allowed it to be reactivated.
The former treasurer of the PP Luis Bárcenas, who till then had denied it, confessed in a letter despatched to the Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office that among the donations made have been searching for awards. In his assertion on July 16, 2021 earlier than Pedraz, he immediately implicated all of the PP Ministers of Development and Environment by stating that they handled businessmen who contributed to this alleged unofficial accounting.
He recounted a selected episode that his predecessor within the PP Treasury, the late Álvaro Lapuerta, would have transmitted to him in his day. According to Bárcenas, Lapuerta went to the overall director of State Highways and the then minister, Francisco Álvarez Cascos, scolded him, indicating that he ought to at all times contact him for such issues.
That of the previous ‘common’ treasurer was the final assertion earlier than Pedraz ended the investigation part on July 29, 2021. Since then, the decide has been ready to obtain the newest report from the IGAE to determine the way forward for the trigger.