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Judge Mercedes Alaya suffered all kinds of obstacles during the ERE investigation, as she herself has told, but the boycott is not limited to this cause, the largest corruption case ever known in the country, which has caused the conviction of two former presidents of the PSOE and the Junta de Andalucía, Manuel Chaves and José Antonio Griñán; and 17 other former senior officials of socialist governments.

There were also obstacles to Alaya's attempt to investigate the alleged corruption of UGT-A and the plot designed by the Andalusian Ugetista federation to be financed irregularly through the alleged millionaire diversion of subsidies from the Board, a case that this newspaper is reporting since 2013.

THE WORLD has had access to two cars of Alaya - from January 15, 2014 and March 4, 2014 - in which this magistrate asked the judge of Seville Cristina Loma Martínez to transfer the computer material “urgently” seized at the home of Roberto Macías , the former UGT-A worker accused by the union of uncovering the millionaire fraud.

Alaya was looking for evidence for the cause he was investigating at the moment about the fraud of training courses. The previous Andalusian governments of the PSOE subsidized these courses with millionaire amounts every year. In this judicial case, UGT-A had a fundamental role, together with CCOO and the Confederation of Entrepreneurs of Andalusia (CEA), as the main beneficiaries of public support for training.

However, Judge Loma Martínez never gave Alaya the material that he demanded insistently, even under threat of raising a complaint to the Government Chamber of the Superior Court of Justice of Andalusia (TSJA) to resolve the conflict raised. Moreover, what could have been a test that corroborated the alleged corruption of UGT-A and the systematic diversion of aid has finally served to sit Roberto Macías on the bench for revealing secrets. The trial will be held next Thursday in Seville.

When Alaya requested the computer material seized at the Macías address, Judge Loma, head of the Court of Instruction 11 of Seville, was investigating the complaint filed by UGT-A against her former worker. The union accuses Macías of a crime of revealing secrets for making a "mass copy" of 32 folders containing some 22,500 files with Ugetist accounting that "at least in part were published in the press since April 21, 2013". He asks four years in jail for him.

In his car, Alaya warns Judge Loma that he is investigating crimes of embezzlement of public flows, "initially destined for training," a cause in which " union charges , public officials and businessmen" could be involved.

These are crimes of "special gravity and social significance," notes Alaya, who remarks that embezzlement and misuse of subsidies are more punished in the Criminal Code than the crime of revealing secrets, which can only be prosecuted. if the alleged offended complaint is filed, in this case UGT-A.

However, Judge Loma accused Alaya of making a "blind petition" and interpreted her requirement as an " overreach of her jurisdictional activity." In addition, in order not to give him a copy of anything, he claimed that the material was "pending analysis." A year later, Alaya ascended to the Audience of Seville and his successor María Núñez Bolaños gave the cause a folder about the formation fraud. However, the Court ordered last July to reopen this case.

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