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Another setback of the Audience of Seville to judge María Núñez Bolaños , instructor of the ERE case. The Seventh Section has annulled the indictment of a businessman from the Sierra Norte de Sevilla who received 1.2 million from the reptile fund and was being investigated in one of the pieces of the corruption macrocause.

Núñez filed the case on the businessman Guillermo Romero Álvarez because - according to the judge's criteria - he had no participation in the request and justification of the help requested and managed by his father. In addition, according to the instructor, it was not possible to verify that this entrepreneur was aware of the illegality “that affected the decision of the granting and payment of the aid, since the administrator cannot be required to question and report on the item budget where the help comes from, or doubt the competence of a general manager ».

However, from the proceedings carried out it is inferred, "quite the contrary", that Romero Álvarez had a "direct" participation in the granting of aid to the company, of which he was empowered and as of February 6, 2006, president of his board of directors, underlines the hearing of the Court of November 11.

Although Judge Núñez appreciated that there was no "intentional element" and that this businessman was convinced that the Junta de Andalucía acts within the law. "For any person it is clear and noticeable that the Administration, in order to grant a subsidy or any assistance, requests a series of requirements that were not met in this case at all, as inferred from both the General State Intervention report" and the one drawn up by the Ministry of Employment, highlights the Hearing.

The magistrates cite a Supreme Court ruling that dismissed the appeal filed by the Matadero de la Sierra Norte, also investigated in the ERE. "The concept of subsidy itself is incompatible with the free attribution of public funds ," says the Supreme Court ruling.

Former Labor General Director Javier Guerrero , convicted in the ruling of the political piece of the ERE, declared that Romero Álvarez's company, «seeing that an aid had been granted by the Ministry of Employment to Matadero de la Sierra Norte , they installed a dryer and also asked for help, ”recalls the car.

The Hearing has revoked or corrected numerous orders of Judge Núñez. Last June, for example, he ordered him to continue investigating scholarships to PSOE politicians paid with the reptile fund to take senior management courses.

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