• BACKGROUND: Antifraude sees possible "corruption" in subsidies related to companies of the brother of Ximo Puig

The brother of Ximo Puig, Francisco Javier Puig , has been summoned to testify as investigated in a court of Valencia that investigates possible crimes of prevarication , embezzlement and fraud in the subsidies that the companies Comunicació dels Ports SA and Mas Mut Produccions SLU have received in the last years of the aid plan for the promotion of Valencian in social media.

In the course of the same investigation, the General Director of Linguistic Policy and Multilingualism Management, Rubén Trenzano , who has been in charge of the Ministry of Education and Culture in the hands of Compromís and who is the one responsible for granting these grants, has been cited. Trenzano has another cause open for alleged crime of documentary falsity in a brief on aid to the promotion of the Valencian granted to companies linked to this relative of the president of the Generalitat, Ximo Puig.

The aforementioned companies have been located in the eye of the hurricane by the Popular Party, which denounced in its day "a plot to get public funds through cross-spending, fraudulent rentals and payrolls." The Deputy Secretary General of the PP, Eva Ortiz , came to denounce in the courts that, after the change of legislature, the firms of what he called the “holding Puig SA” increased their income by 686,000 euros (290%) after three years of losses.

According to the story of the events carried out by the PP, one of these companies passed the same tickets for electricity, water, energy, security and advice in order to collect two different grants: the one given to the radio and the one given grants to the television channels, two platforms with which Comunicació dels Ports works. Both companies have also received grants from two different Administrations (the governments of Catalonia, Aragon and the Valencian Community) for the same concept.

The events started in 2015, the first year in which Compromís launched its program of grants to the press, radio and television that dedicate a space to report in Valencian. The aid is distributed according to parameters such as the hours of broadcast in Valencian, the number of listeners, spectators or readers. And for this, a series of expenses associated with the exploitation of this journalistic activity in their own language must be justified.

That first year, Comunicació dels Ports received 32,124 euros of subsidy, which represents 80% of the budget presented. The televising activity of the Francis Puig company deserved 13,813 euros, for an activity budget of 16,761 euros. He also received support in the press branch written for 10,888 euros from a solitary budget of 45,444 euros. That first year he received 56,8236 euros, an amount that the following year increased to 83,139 euros, in 2017 of 86,045 euros and in 2018 of 54,118 euros. In total, 280,128 euros in four years.

In the case of the second company of which Francis Puig is an administrator, Mas Mut Produccions, aid was received in the written press section worth 23,234 euros (2015), 16,969 euros (2016) 12,072 euros (2017) and 6,599 euros (2018). In total, 58,874 euros for Valencian promotion activities in the press format as a result of a subsidy program that has received a large majority of social media with implantation in the Valencian Community, including EL MUNDO, ABC, Levante, the chains Ser, Cope or Onda Cero and a multitude of digital media.

What the PP denounces, among other issues, is that, in parallel to the receipt of these subsidies, the companies of the brother of the Valencian president have benefited from similar aid, with almost identical bases, from the Government of Catauña. In 2015, Comunicació dels Ports received 63,490 euros (35,747 in the television section and 27,743 in the radio section. The following year, the amount amounted to 62,040 euros, in 2017 they reached 68,384 euros. In total, 163,915 euros in public money received under the budget of the Generalitat of Catalonia for the same concept.The process is repeated in the case of Mas Mut Produccions, with 36,192 euros obtained in four years.

According to the data provided by the Popular Party in its complaint, the companies of Francis Puig have obtained 588,768

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