The Generalitat, headed by Carlos Mazón, has served as Generalitat Chief Prosecutor in corruption cases involving Consell since the Botànic phase. “Processes will continue their normal course,” sources from the Generalitat Presidency told INFORMATION when asked about the Generalitat’s position in the six corruption-related cases that are still open and awaiting verdict or execution. There are two cases that need to be tried or punished). And these are carried out in all cases, except one, by former leaders of the People’s Party.
Camps case for 1.8 million contract in Gürtel
The Generalitat remained a private accuser in the case against the former head of the Generalitat Francisco Camps regarding the payment of $1.8 million for the Gürtel project from four ministries and five public companies between 2004 and 2008.
The trial ended last October and sentencing is pending. The Generalitat participated in this hearing in the National Court as a civil plaintiff, together with an external lawyer chosen through competition, to claim part of the transferred money. A private lawyer was used to avoid legal problems.
In 2014, during the investigation, the Generalitat Prosecutor’s Office intervened in the case to approve small contracts with companies of Francisco Correa, which refused to appear as charges, while Alberto Fabra was president of Consell.
A situation that Botànic reversed in 2019 when the case was reopened to include Francisco Camps. The trial began on January 23 and ended on October 19, 2023.
Some of the money earned from the Pope’s visit was refunded
The Generalitat wants to recover the 3.2 million euro bribe paid for the contract for the publication of the Pope’s visit to Valencia in 2006. And the 19 people convicted by this third final conviction of the Gürtel conspiracy in the Valencian Community were confirmed in the Valencian Community. by the Supreme Court in April 2023.
Recover money looted from Pinedo treatment plant
Justice managed to recover 3 million of the 23.5 million looted at the Pinedo treatment plant. The first part of the Valencia Court is the part where the sentence was carried out, giving 97 years of imprisonment to 24 defendants since November 2020.
Favorable treatment of the fire cartel and Castellano’s rifle
The Generalitat is demanding a 15-year prison sentence for former Interior Minister and former Government delegate Serafín Castellano. The Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office demanded fifteen years of imprisonment, a further 41 years of disqualification and a payment of approximately one million euros to former Minister Serafín Castellano for the preferential treatment he gave to the Avialsa T-35 company when he was Minister of Internal Affairs. fire service, possibly in exchange for payment for hunting and rifles. According to the first calendar estimate developed by INFORMATION, the case will be heard in the National Court between September 23 and November 20.
Get money back from collaboration aid
Among the final decisions for which the Generalitat Prosecutor’s Office must follow the money trail to recover the defrauded amounts from the treasury are the accounting liability of 2.7 million for the diversion of 1,623,819 euros in subsidies paid to the Cyes Foundation for projects in Nicaragua; of this amount, only 43,953 reached the euro target according to the first decision in the Blasco case.
From the second part, which was decided and final, the fifth division of the Valencia Court decided that the Court of Accounts should determine the amount defrauded, and the Generalitat calculated it at five million euros.
AIDO aid fraud
30 people will be tried for alleged fraud in AIDO aid. The complaint was submitted at the PP stage, but the Generalitat appeared on 14 December 2015.