Court of Accounts took back 6.8 million euros Final provisions regarding assistance from ERE. Conviction of so-called political article upheld by Supreme Court deemed fraud 680 million euros It was dispersed by the Andalusian Junta within ten years, illegally, arbitrarily and without compliance with controls. This is the money recovered by the final decisions on “aid sent to companies to finance sustainability plans issued by the Andalusian Junta”. Between 2001 and 2010”, he reports to the Court of Accounts.
In the final decision, the supervisory body 498,814.93 Euros For the assistance provided by the Ministry of Labor for early retirement of company employees saldauto. The decision includes the heirs of the person who served as the working general director of the Andalusian Junta in the first half of the period to which the events subject to prosecution are referred. At that stage the general manager Francisco Javier GuerreroThe person who was the main part of the plan and died in 2020.
He was a warrior the real prisoner of the case and the only person to go to prison twice, when he died of a heart attack in his home. Main distributor of ERE funds, who has since served as managing director along with three Employment consultants from 1999 to 2008announced before Judge Mercedes Alaya He said that the famous ERE game 31.L was “a reptile fund”. He distributed the aid outside the office, in the bars of some famous cocktail bars in Seville, and his driver is on trial for collecting 1.4 million euros in aid, which he declared was used to buy “gifts and cocaine”. Now it is his daughters and heirs who must return these 200,000 euros.
Other claims by the Court of Accounts 298,814.93 Euros To the person who replaced Guerrero in the position of general labor director of the Andalusian Junta, Juan Marquez. The former high-ranking official was found guilty of lying and embezzlement in the Seville Court decision, which was confirmed by the Supreme Court, which decided on the specific procedure for distributing aid. With Chaves and José Antonio Griñán eight other supreme officials. However, the Supreme Court reduced Márquez’s prison sentence and suspended his entry to prison.
He is in prison on six major charges
Six of the eight former senior officials currently sentenced to prison at ERE are in prison. Former Minister of Labor Antonio FernandezFormer deputy counselor serving his sentence in Puerto III prison (Cádiz) Agustín BarberaFormer Minister of Innovation, Francisco Vallejoformer assistant counsel, Jesus Maria Rodriguezand former executive director of the IDEA Agency, Miguel Angel SerranoThey are all in Seville I prison, the former deputy Treasury secretary is also still in prison, Carmen Martínez Aguayo. Last Christmas they all went to prison to serve their sentences. Former President Griñán did not go to prison due to cancer, and former Minister of Labor José Antonio Viera was released when he was in the third grade due to the same disease. Currently, the Constitutional Court is reviewing these sentences and investigating whether they violate fundamental rights.
The Court of Accounts reports on the “execution status of final convictions given by law”. return procedures According to the scope of assistance to companies to finance sustainability plans granted by the Andalusian Junta between 2001 and 2010, the “Andalusian Government” has already recovered a total amount of 6,818,000 Euros, of which 5,935,000 Euros have been received as of January 1, 2022. As a result of the enforcement proceedings carried out today, it returned to the public purse.
Scope of fraud
Andalusian Manager Juan Manuel Moreno (PP) He has yet to update the money he managed to recover from the ERE case. There are three ways to return this money that fraudulently funded early retirements and injected direct aid to companies in crisis. Through civil liability in administrative cases, criminal cases and through the Court of Accounts. Advisor to the Board of Directors, Antonio Sanz, expressed their confidence in his last outlook on this issue last August. Increasing the recovered amount to “23 million Euros” With final decisions in favor of autonomous government.
The total amount of ERE fraud has always been a common amount. Mentioned by the Seville Court in its political decision 679,432,179.09 EurosThis figure was also the figure determined by the Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office. However, even though all of this money was given as confirmed by the Supreme Court knowingly that the procedure circumvents controls and is arbitrary, not all of this money was scammed. Actually There are about 6,300 early retired workers who continue to receive benefits monthly. Another fact is how much space dances still occupy in the budget of this item, according to the numbers managed by the Andalusian Junta, and that it is predicted that it will be extended. until December 2025. The total money allocated to these EREs, which were not embezzled because many workers were legally paid, is as follows: 1,200 million public euros.
The convicts’ defense always argued that fraud was intentional. 140 million eurosFor direct assistance to companies and intruders who should not be sneaking into files funded by public money. As a matter of fact, between 140 and 150 million were paid to the Social Security General Treasury as contributions and special agreements.