The judge of reinforcement of the Court of Instruction number 6 of Seville, which investigates the case of the records of employment regulation (ERE), has issued two orders in which, at the request of the Anti-Corruption Prosecutor's Office, agrees to initiate prior proceedings against a total of 15 people, including ten former senior officials of the Junta de Andalucía as former president Manuel Chaves and five former directors, for the "bridge" loan of 5,829,817 euros granted to the merchant Campocarne Andalucía - formerly known as Hijos de Andrés Molina (Hamsa) - by the former Institute of Development of Andalusia (IFA) and approved under the agreement of the Board of Governors of the Board dated November 9, 1999.

In a first order issued on December 3, the magistrate agrees to deduce full and complete testimony of the proceedings and initiate with the same new preliminary proceedings in relation to the alleged perpetration of crimes of administrative prevarication and embezzlement by the 15 persons investigated .

In the same way, and in a second car of the same date, the instructor agrees to initiate prior proceedings for said crimes against those investigated, among which are, in addition to Chaves, the former Board members Gaspar Zarrías, Guillermo Gutiérrez , José Antonio Viera, Antonio Fernández and Francisco Vallejo; former Deputy Minister of Innovation Jesús María Rodríguez Román; former Director of Labor and Social Security Francisco Javier Guerrero; former IFA President Salvador Durbán; the former director of the IDEA agency Miguel Ángel Serrano, and five executives of the company.

In this second order, the magistrate shows that the facts reported by the Anti-Corruption Prosecutor in the brief submitted to the Court on November 20 "could present characteristics that make us presume the possible existence of a criminal offense", so "it turns out pertinent the opening of a new cause of previous proceedings that aims to determine and verify the rational indications of criminality that arise from the granting "to Campocarne Andalucía SA of a loan" bridge "of 970 million pesetas -5.8 million Euros-, granted by the former IFA and approved by agreement of the Board of Governors of the Board on November 9, 1999 (formalized in a public deed of December 22, 1999).

In this regard, he adds that, through this loan, "a direct public aid could have been simulated, granted without subject to the legally applicable principles and procedures, with the consequent impairment of the public funds committed," an operation that would not "have" any link with the so-called "specific procedure" or with the undue transfers of financing articulated by virtue of it - for the purposes indicated - in favor of IFA / IDEA ".

In the opinion of the magistrate, and as the Public Ministry maintains in its brief, the facts investigated in this new separate piece "would not have prescribed" taking into account that, "as of February 1, 2005, the loan would not have been amortized. and that even then it would not have been declared unpaid or failed - nor considered an expense / liability for IFA / IDEA- ".

The magistrate, in this second order, agrees to request different documentation from the IDEA agency, the Presidency and Employment Councils, and the Board Intervention, so that they can contribute "as soon as possible". In addition, it declares the complexity of the procedure and indicates a period of 18 months for its instruction, "without prejudice to what may be agreed later."

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