Valencia 4th Division, which is investigating a lawsuit filed by the Civil Guards Unit of the Judicial Police Service against certain companies, some of which are led by them. Francesc Puig, Consell president’s brother, Ximo Puig, points out that one of the firms will receive a subsidy from the Generalitat thanks to the hiring of the regional president’s son. Document this does not conclude that the signature is irregularbut it frames this action in the manner of work that supposedly guides the actions of those investigated in this case, and which would justify the receipt of recurring bills of public assistance from various administrations, including Valencia.
The report indicates that one of the actions under investigation was the recruitment of the son of the head of Consell at Mas Mut Produccions, which is affiliated with Comunicacions dels Ports. The transfer was carried out through a channel. Grant from the Valencia Employment Service. Two days before the president’s son was discharged from Social Security, the deadline for requesting a subsidy has expired. The basic condition of being able to participate in this program is that the persons in question have registered with Servef as a job seeker four days ago. Representatives state:Take attention» he said that he caused voluntary resignation when he did not complete four months as tourism editor. He was replaced by another person hired as a sound technician-writer.
The Organic Unit of the Judicial Police attributes the irregularities detected at the companies of audiovisual entrepreneurs Francesc Puig and Juan Enrique Adell Bover to “possible human or computer errors”, but “others may be malicious acts”.
The Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office sent a report to the court in which it assessed that there may be irregularities in subsidies to Comunicacions dels Ports, Mas Mut Production and Canal Maestrat, which received assistance from the Community and Catalonia. Prosecutor explains what the Judicial Police stated four types of irregularities in the rationale for the expenditure incurred to qualify for such subsidies.
These irregularities cross bills It may have been used to obtain a larger subsidy than the corresponding amount, which could constitute a crime of forgery of a commercial document.
The Civil Guard also confirmed the existence of bills whose content was questioned whether they could be considered an eligible expense or were sufficiently justified; If not, the conduct may be defined as the distortion required by the subsidy fraud offense or constitute an administrative violation with a reimbursement obligation (refuelling or telephone or agency costs involved).
Likewise, in the requests made to the Generalitat Valenciana (Ministry of Education) and the Generalitat de Catalunya (Presidency), 100% expense allocation was confirmed, that is, a subsidy was requested from both administrations by justifying the same expenses.
The prosecutor believes that neglect of the fact of receiving other subsidies, especially in the case of those taken from Catalonia, could be framed as a crime of subsidy fraud.
Consequently, the Anti-Corruption Prosecutor requests from the Intervention services of both autonomous communities: run two audit reports On subsidies received by each of these companies between 2015 and 2018, taking into account the supporting documents submitted in both autonomies.
He adds all this to identify amounts that may have been improperly obtained as required by criminal law.
In this sense, it would be essential to know whether these subsidies exist. Over 120,000 Eurosbecause in this case these facts could be framed as a subsidy offense and punishable by one to five years’ imprisonment and a sixfold fine if not made before the repayment begins.
The prosecutor concludes his report requesting summons under investigation against Francis Puig, director of Comunicacions dels Ports and Mas Mut, and the applicant for assistance, and Juan Enrique Adell Bover, solidarity manager of the Canal Maestrat.
After examining this report of the prosecutor, Valencia 4. Calls Francis Puig to testify On May 23 and two days later at Adell Bover.
Rubén Trenzano, Director General for Language Policy of the Government of Valencia, also appears to be investigated in this judicial investigation, which stems from the PP’s complaint, which continues the public’s accusations.
They specifically seek Grants for the promotion of ValenciaLeader assistance for the promotion of youth employment, for publishing digital media in Catalan or Aranese, and for local development.
After hearing this report from the prosecutor and the quotations, the Comunicació dels Ports company issued a statement stating that “suspects that the report referred to the very limited number of bills provided to justify the subsidies awarded will be resolved at the next appearance in court soon”.
Likewise, he insists that “such suspicions do not in any way lead to any crime” and that “while the report speaks of double attribution of subsidy expenditures of the Generalitat Valenciana and Generalitat Catalana, the same bills have been issued in this or that administration, and in no case the same expense with objective data that it is not fully or doubled subsidized by either administration”.
Finally, this company underlines that “the controls carried out by the Anti-Fraud Authority in 2020 resulted in a favorable decision by the administration without instructing any reimbursement procedure.”
The complaint about these facts was made by PP, who attacked again on this issue at the Cortes yesterday. proxy Eva Ortiz He demanded political responsibilities from Ximo Puig for this whole affair. Vicen Soler said Botànic treats all companies the same as opposed to PP’s “customerism”. Puig assured Consell that he was “absolutely calm” about the judicial investigation into public subsidies to his brother’s companies.