In the investigation in the Azud case, the company Crespo Gomar SL, which was responsible for the electoral actions of PSPV and Bloc in the 2007 and 2008 elections, emerged and was investigated four years ago for an alleged election crime committed together with the two prosecuting parties. by prescription.
Crespo Gomar SL has already been extinguished, but agents of the Civil Guard’s Central Operations Unit (UCO) found it while investigating the files of Cronosport SL, the supplier of PSPV-PSOE advertising material in regional and municipal elections. 2007 and overall 2008, he allegedly paid private companies in exchange for urban favors or public works contracts.
For Treasury purposes, Cronosport SL declared revenue of €72,629.51 from Crespo Gomar SL in 2007; of which “at least 17,397.68 euros corresponds to 20,000 euros being paid for work carried out by Cronosport for the benefit of the PSOE” Notebooks with the party logo and 3,000 backpacks contributed to the cause, according to the latest UCO report.
Surprise leaps as he tracks down documents seized from José María Cataluña, PSPV-PSOE’s former finance secretary from 1999 to 2004. And find “a handwritten note entitled ‘Crespo, Gomar’, revealing a series of ostensibly monetary amounts for the years 2005, 2006, and 2007.” A payment plan that provides two installments of EUR 60,000 per two months in 2005, EUR 25,000 per month in 2006, EUR 300,000 and for 2007 EUR 180,000, is divided into four contributions of EUR 45,000. “The sums amount to 600,000 euros.” Another typed page contains the same subscriptions, but the start date is September 8, 2006 and is on Alzira. With additional explanation: «The aim of the advertising agency is to finish billing this year at the rate of € 45,000 for the remaining five months in 2006».
Alzira’s location draws the attention of UCO agents. Because it is the city where “Construcciones Blauverd’s registered office is located”, which also benefited from the services of Crespo Gomar in 2005 and 2006. Surprise strikes again with seized securities from PSPV’s former head of finance. “All these invoices issued to Construcciones Blauverd correspond in quantity and date with those specified in the document seized at the home of José María Cataluña.” From this it can be concluded that Blauverd financed PSPV through Crespo Gomar SL, although the UCO did not state it formally in its report. Some facts already predicted.
The cause of the election offense opened in 2018 as envisioned
As in Dickens’ Christmas Carol, the ghost of the past reappears to meet with PSPV. In April 2018, the President of the 21st Investigation Court of Valencia timed out the reason for the alleged election offense that PSPV and Bloc could have committed, admitting that four companies had paid 255,140 euros to the responsible Crespo Gomar SL company. Election actions of both parties during the 2007 regional and municipal elections. The documents that started the case were given to the money laundering group of the Judicial Police on 22 by José Císcar, the then general coordinator of the popular parliamentary group in Corts. November 2016.
The election crime, which is assumed to be committed by both entities in 2007, was foreseen by both the Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office and the 21st Investigation Court, as it could only be prosecuted five years later. Alleged illegal financing has only been formally investigated since 2015, when it was criminalized in the Criminal Code. The investigation into Crespo Gomar and the alleged favorable treatment of the two ministries and two city councils led to four investigations in courts in Madrid, Gandia and Benidorm, again for lack of evidence.