• Courses: Judge sees fraud in Board contracts for three years
  • Complaint: The mayor of Granada and another twenty former senior officials of the Board, investigated

The so-called case of training fraud is resurrected . After a good number of the pieces in which it was divided have been filed, the judge of reinforcement of the Court of Instruction 6 of Seville has just breathed new life into the cause with the prosecution of 19 people, including several former senior socialist positions of the Board and the former mayor of Granada, also of the PSOE, Francisco Cuenca.

This is the piece in which multiple irregularities are investigated in the hiring of several companies that were responsible for the supervision of the Occupational Training courses subsidized by the Ministry of Economy through the General Directorate of Social Economy, whose managers hired, among others, to people you trust with those who already worked and who created an ad hoc cooperative.

In a car issued last day 2, Judge José Ignacio Vilaplana agrees to continue the judicial procedure and transform the case into an abbreviated procedure , a step prior to the opening of the trial. The judge now gives the parties a period of ten days to request or not to hold the hearing and, where appropriate, formulate their conclusions.

All this after confirming the crime indications that point to the 19 accused, investigated for the crimes of usurpation of public functions, prevarication, negotiations and prohibited activities for officials, administrative contracting fraud and document falsification.

Among the accused is the former Director General Social Economy, Ana Barbeito and several former provincial delegates of the Ministry of Innovation, including Francisco Cuenca who, when the events happened held that position in Granada.

The judge also points to the former delegate in Cádiz, Angelina Ortiz; to Almeria, Manuel Gabriel Pérez; or Jaén’s, Marta Rueda, as well as several chiefs of service and the beneficiaries of the contracts, all of them involved, says the known car yesterday.

Private contractors

The magistrate considers it proven that the orders to execute the contracts were given from "different central and provincial organizations" under the General Directorate of Social Economy of the Ministry of Economy and Innovation in 2010, 2011 and 2012.

Those responsible, all accused, used private contractors to carry out tasks - inspection of courses - which, in fact, were the exclusive competence of public officials.

In this way, instead of being officials who controlled the subsidized courses, it was private companies, linked in a few cases to the political offices themselves, who monitored the spending of money. Even, a company was hired to monitor the courses that were also given at its facilities.

With regard to the former mayor of Granada, Judge Vilaplana points out that in his capacity as provincial delegate of Economy and Innovation he allegedly unlawfully contracted the services of monitoring and verification of the execution of the courses through two contracts minors irregularly.

They were attributed in this way, he adds, to two companies "public functions" in an "unfair and arbitrary manner", he said.

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