The instructor had already given them an ultimatum to send this last ‘dossier’
MADRID, 4 Nov. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The judge of the National Court (AN) has summoned for next November 10 as witnesses the two technicians of the General Intervention of the State Administration (IGAE) who must prepare the only pending report on the alleged irregular adjudications to alleged donors of the ‘box b’ of the Popular Party to explain the reason for the delay.
According to the legal sources consulted by Europa Press, the head of the Central Court of Instruction Number 5 has made this decision after giving several notices to the IGAE to send this latest report, where it is expected to make a global analysis of all the contracts awarded. to the companies that would have nourished the ‘box b’ with their donations in exchange for receiving public contracts.
In those sent so far, the IGAE has been reflecting irregularities. Thus, in one dated December 16, 2021, it highlighted “very notable deviations” in a contract awarded in 2003 by the Ministry of the Environment to Constructora Hispánica SA, a company investigated in the ‘Gürtel’ plot.
Once sent, it will be the turn of the Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office. After that, Pedraz, already with all the information on the table, must decide if there is sufficient evidence to prosecute those investigated for this cause, whose investigations ended on July 29, 2021.
The case, known as that of the ‘finalist commissions’, was initiated by Judge Pablo Ruz in 2013, but he closed it two years later when he saw no more criminal evidence than that of the payment of the reform of the ‘popular’ headquarters of Genoa with those off-the-books funds. However, what was revealed by the leader of the ‘Gürtel’, Francisco Correa, during the trial for the first period of the corrupt plot allowed it to be reactivated.
The former treasurer of the PP Luis Bárcenas, who until then had denied it, confessed in a letter sent to the Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office that some of the donations made were seeking awards. In his statement of July 16, 2021 before Pedraz, he directly implicated all the Ministers of Development and Environment of the PP by stating that they were dealing with the businessmen who contributed to this alleged unofficial accounting.
Specifically, he recounted an episode that his predecessor in the PP Treasury, the late Álvaro Lapuerta, would have transmitted to him in his day. According to Bárcenas, Lapuerta went to the general director of State Highways and the then minister, Francisco Álvarez Cascos, scolded him, indicating that he should always go to him for these matters.
