VALENCIA, 1 Feb. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The magistrate judge who is investigating the fraud of four million euros suffered in the Municipal Transport Company (EMT) of Valencia in September 2019 has agreed to extend the investigation for another six months.
This is stated in an order, to which Europa Press has had access, in which the investigator points out that in this case “this extension is fully justified” given that it has not been possible to complete this investigation within 12 months due to the “complexity “from the procedures to practices, especially due to the difficulties of compliance with the letters rogatory.
In the resolution dated January 27, the magistrate also points out that it will be necessary to carry out new proceedings “at the expense of the results of those that remain to be completed.”
As published by Las Provincias this Wednesday, one of these rogatory letters is already available to the court. This is a commission sent to the United States in 2021, with all the information about the creator of the fake email account from which the scammers managed to get the then manager who was fired for these events to transfer the funds to two Hong Kong bank accounts. four million euros, by convincing her that they were lawyers for a consultancy and a purchase of buses was underway.
According to this information, an account was created on September 1 — in the name of Carlos Valdés, an identity that may be false — and from an IP address located in Israel.
Before this publication, the president of the EMT and Councilor for Sustainable Mobility, Giuseppe Grezzi, has indicated that they trust and wish that the investigation be “accelerated” and that all the requests of the public company be met “given the abundance of evidence and the probative elements to clarify the facts and recover the money that they have stolen from us”.
In addition, according to the statements provided by the EMT, Grezzi has indicated that “it is still pending for Caixabank to deliver all the information requested by the judge and that, at first, it refused and that, as far as we know, for now hasn’t contributed yet.”
On behalf of the PP, the councilor and advisor on the entity’s board of directors, Carlos Mundina, has denounced that after three and a half years since the investigation began “no one has assumed political responsibilities and not a single euro has been recovered from what was stolen in eight transfers carried out during a month without anyone noticing”.
“For us, the most serious thing is that money transfers of up to four million euros were made from the EMT and there was no control to detect the scam,” he stressed, and regretted that “the biggest scandal of the EMT continues to this day of today without having political consequences”.
Mundina stressed in a statement that “there were several reports and audits that warned of the vulnerability of the EMT and neither (Joan) Ribó nor Grezzi acted to solve it.” Therefore, she considers that the fraud “occurred due to security failures in the company and the only thing this government has done is blame a worker,” alluding to the fired employee.
In his opinion, it is “shameful” that “those who have been giving lessons on political responsibilities are now hiding and throwing a worker to the lions” and he has once again demanded the “immediate” dismissal of Grezzi for his disastrous management at the EMT.
“Ribó and he are responsible for the black hole that the EMT has become. They have spent a fortune on lawyers just to blame a woman because they have not recovered the four million stolen by her negligence,” he concluded.
