Police’s Economic and Financial Crimes Fighting Branch Directorate (UDEF) officers continued to publish the reports they prepared for “14 years” for the case regarding accusations and defenses yesterday. The court, which presided over the last hearing of the Gürtel conspiracy in Valencia, gave two days for the agents’ statements. However, the meticulousness of the interrogations will cause it to last at least four days, because today the police exit will continue with the questions of the final defenses. These include that of the former president of the Generalitat. Francisco Camps.
There was also defense among the interrogations held yesterday. Dora IbarsFormer managing director of Corporate Promotions from 2003 to 2013 and key to the contract affecting Francisco Camps. Representatives of the Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office and UDEF point to Dora Ibars as the creator of major projects in which thirteen participants in Fitur 2009 took part, the assembly of which in Fitur 2009 was carried out “without administrative file”. Police officers to the prosecutor’s office last week. An argument repeated yesterday in response to Dora Ibars’ lawyer.
The lawyer tried to justify that the intervention of the former director general of Corporate Promotion was merely an intervention for the purpose of authorizing the Generalitat’s image problems. And he asked me to specify which invoices Ibars allowed in the contract for the 2005 Communications Guide, which was given to journalists as USBs at Christmas 2004. And he asked me to specify what Gürtel did for 88,975.59 euros, divided into eight invoices, although not all. some of these were printed or collected. «There are only three bills [en el informe de la UDEF] because they are people sent by the Generalitat,” admitted two inspectors who appeared yesterday.
Phones were tapped
UDEF obtained more information from the major projects stand at Fitur 2009 because from October 2008 to February 2009, the speeches of members of the Gürtel conspiracy had already been listened to. They also participated live in the changes made to the budget of the stand, for which Dora Ibars and Francisco Camps were accused.
«We understand that Dora Ibars must specify the cost that should be attributed to each stand and negotiate with the parties. Orange Market», The person responsible for the UDEF investigation responded to Ibars’ lawyer. The Valencia Tourism Agency (AVT) had given the Orange Market its own stand, as well as the design of the large event pavilion, albeit without assembly.
UDEF responded to the former Corporate Affairs director’s lawyer as follows: “Dora Ibars undertook the negotiations to approve the project and the budget, how it will be financed and the definition of what will be attributed to each organization affiliated with the Generalitat. “She is the one who defines it.”
Ibars’ lawyer asked, “So how do they come to this conclusion?” asked. «Due to indications obtained from telephone conversations [de los miembros de la Gürtel] and an email from Cacsa mentioning the hitherto unknown definition of the cost to be attributed to that asset.
Finally, in response to the Generalitat’s lawyer, UDEF researchers confirmed that “Orange Market has a profit margin of 50.53%.”