• Initiative: The PP-Cs government announces that it will "persecute" intruders to regain maximum loot from the ERE
  • Claim: The Board reactivates the recovery of money defrauded in the ERE
  • Corruption.The figures of the largest corruption plot of Democracy: 679,412,179.09 euros of money defrauded
  • Sentence: Six years in jail for José Antonio Griñán and nine years of disqualification for Chaves

Of the 680 million euros in public funds that the governments of Manuel Chaves and José Antonio Griñán defrauded, according to the judgment of the Audience of Seville, with the ERE has barely recovered just over two percent. Specifically, fifteen million euros. And of the total, they are considered lost, at least, 71 million euros.

The data has been revealed on Tuesday by the Minister of Finance, Industry and Energy, Juan Bravo, after the governing council in which the executive of the PP and Cs gave order to the legal services to apply all the mechanisms contemplated in the Finance Law Public to claim the money and ask responsibilities of those convicted by the Court of Seville.

That no more money has been recovered and that they are already impossible to claim 71 million euros is explained, above all, by the time that the governments of the PSOE, especially that presided over by Susana Díaz, let pass and by the “tangle” expressly designed to prevent it, according to the counselor of the Presidency and spokesman for the Andalusian government, Elías Bendodo.

According to the data collected by the Ministry of Finance, the Autonomous Administration has already paid around 402 million euros in policies for the early retirement of the ERE and has a pending invoice of 63 million until 2025.

Bravo has not dared to quantify what the Board will be able to recover, but it did specify what is the amount that has already remained on the road and has definitely been lost.

In this regard, the counselor explained that there are 10.5 million in irregular aid that cannot be recovered because it has been too long and they have been prescribed, even though their invalidity has been recognized. In addition, there are another 25 million euros in the same situation because the beneficiaries have declared themselves insolvent and, therefore, cannot be charged, and another 35.5 million euros that the legal services have considered that the claim for the funds granted.

Administrative field

On the administrative level, the efforts made by the Junta de Andalucía to try to recover that money are specified in 218 open review files ex officio, of which 91 have reached the jurisdiction of the Administrative Litigation, with 28 favorable sentences for a amount of 18 million euros and another 20 files, totaling 13.7 million euros, which are awaiting sentencing.

Also, there are 96 files completed by the Ministry of Employment that declare the nullity of the aid and order its return for an amount of around 36 million euros, compared to 18 other files in which the claim is not appropriate.

Through the Court of Auditors , the Board has claimed a total of 118 million euros, with favorable rulings, for now, only as regards 17 million euros.

The Minister of Finance has admitted, as he has done on other occasions, that the task of recovering the money from the ERE is almost impossible, although he insisted that no effort is being spared.

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  • Manuel Chaves
  • Susana Díaz
  • PSOE
  • José Antonio Griñán
  • Corruption
  • ERE case
  • Andalusia

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