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The foundation that created in 2003 the Government of Manuel Chaves to train the unemployed and who managed about 300 million in public funds squandered part of that money in a gigantic network of venues that distributed throughout Andalusia, and whose rentals reached assume an invoice of almost eight million euros a year.

In many cases, these leases contained clauses that could be considered abusive and that shielded contracts in favor of the owners of the premises, to which we must add income that was mostly above market prices.

According to the internal documentation of the Faffe to which EL MUNDO has had access, the Andalusian Fund for Training and Employment Foundation, better known as the Faffe, came to have 80 offices distributed in all the Andalusian provinces. Of these, more than half were leased, leased to companies and individuals. Specifically, the leased offices became 44, which meant an invoice that in 2010, a year before it was liquidated, amounted to 7.6 million euros.

That is the figure that appears in the minutes of the Board of Trustees of the Faffe -analyzed by this newspaper- corresponding to the meeting held by its members on December 28, 2010, in which the head of the entity, Fernando Villén , detailed the expense and income items for the following year, for the year 2011.

Fernando Villén, leaving the courts of Seville.GOGO LOBATO

Those almost eight million could have been considerably less since the rental prices were then much lower. They were aware of not only those responsible for the foundation, but also their employers, among which was the dome of the Ministry of Employment, since then counselor, Manuel Recio , to the vice councilor, Justo Mañas , through the Director General of Labor , Daniel Alberto Rivera , or the technical general secretary, Lourdes Medina Varo . All of them splashed to a greater or lesser extent by the other major corruption scandals, the EREs and training fraud. Medina Varo, for example, is one of the 19 former senior officials of the Board convicted in the ERE ruling last Tuesday. The penalty that has fallen on her is 8 years of disqualification by prevarication.

All of them were present at the meeting of the Board of Trustees on June 28, 2010. At that session the President and Employment Counselor instructed to review the prices of the leases of the headquarters.

The board of directors

He did so, as recorded in the minutes held by this newspaper, after admitting to those present that said prices "are outside the market price" , although the main reason, judging by what the document includes, was not so much that the "exhaustive control" that the Andalusian Parliament was currently carrying out over the foundation.

Of all the provinces, Cádiz was the one with the most headquarters of the Faffe concentrated in its territory. Specifically, 16 of the 80 that came to form the network of the entity. Behind was Seville, with 12 locations, among which was the main one, which was occupied by the General Technical Directorate in the Galia Puerto building. Next, the provinces of Almería and Córdoba, with a dozen centers each. Ten had Granada and nine Huelva, while Jaén and Córdoba hosted eight locations and Malaga only five.

In Cádiz , in Jerez de la Frontera, the Faffe was the Training Center for Employment in the City of Transport, located in three warehouses rented from Torrezapata SL. This lease is a paradigmatic case of rental management practiced by Faffe's management, with Fernando Villén leading the way.

In February 2010, when it was known that the foundation was going to be liquidated, the former CEO signed an armored contract with the owners, the company Torrezapata SL, which guaranteed the payment of the 8,000 euros per month of rent for a period of 15 years. A total of 1.4 million euros.

This contract was already known and caused the public embarrassment of the employment counselor José Sánchez Maldonado , who in Parliament admitted feeling dismayed in March 2014 when he was challenged by the PP.

But the one at the Transportation Center was not an isolated case. As EL MUNDO has been able to verify, lease contracts with similar clauses - declared abusive by a judge - were repeated over time and in provinces such as Jaén, Sevilla or Málaga .

Armored contracts

In Seville, for example, Villén signed a rental contract for a ship in La Negrilla Industrial Park in 2007 for 2,930.62 euros per month and guaranteed the owner, the company Famsol Inversiones SL, a minimum of two years of rental in a contract for a term of five years. That is, if the Faffe left that headquarters before two years, she was obliged to pay those two annuities in full.

The same happened in the case of offices rented in the capital of Malaga to host the provincial management. On March 15, 2007, the director of the Faffe signed a lease agreement that contemplated a "mandatory duration" of five years. And the same with the training center as the Faffe in Mengíbar (Jaén).

In the latter case it was a lease with purchase option signed in July 2010 (with the liquidation process already in the making) and for a period of eight years, with half of the guaranteed rent. The signed agreement included a clause that forced the Faffe to disburse 300,000 euros if he left the building before five years.

It is also worth noting the headquarters of the Monseñor Óscar Romero industrial specialization center in Malaga, rented for 15 years to the Minal company for more than 6,000 euros per month. In May 2014, when the Faffe had already disappeared, the Board continued to pay the rent even though the 1,600 meters of the premises were completely empty .

The Faffe is in the judicial and political focus, with an open commission of inquiry in the Andalusian Parliament. The Court of Instruction 6 of Seville is investigating numerous irregularities in this foundation, such as the expense of 31,969 euros that Fernando Villén made with Board cards in five different hostels in Seville, Córdoba and Cádiz.

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