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The judge of Seville who has placed the former dome of UGT Andalucía a step away from the bench for a diversion of 40.7 million euros in grants granted by the previous Andalusian government of the PSOE has also prosecuted ten responsible for seven companies that made allegedly false invoices following the union's instructions.

The seven companies involved by the judge in the alleged fraud committed by those responsible for UGT-A are suppliers of "trust" of the union that EL MUNDO has been reporting since 2013, when this newspaper uncovered the alleged plot designed by the union to be financed irregularly with the money from subsidies for the unemployed and other purposes granted by the Junta de Andalucía.

These companies provided "direct collaboration" to UGT and issued invoices with concepts that served to justify aid. Among the companies is Publish D&M, the firm that prepared the receipts to camouflage the 700 counterfeit briefcases in Asia that the union gave to those attending a regional congress.

Another "fraud mechanism" highlighted by the judge is the allegedly fictitious rents channeled through the Soralpe society , owned by the union, and the Ifes, the UGT institute that was responsible for providing training courses.

Among the companies that participated in the alleged fraud, the holder of the Court of Instruction 9 of Seville, Juan Jesús García Vélez, highlights Chavsa, Lienzo Gráfica, Siosa, Viajes Macarena, Karonte New Developments, Foltas Badía and Publish D&M, according to the known car this Wednesday.

With seven o'clock, UGT-A accumulated a 'boat' of 674,993.62 euros until December 2013, according to the documentation seized at the headquarters of the union and its supplier companies. The 'boat' is one of the three "fraud" mechanisms used by the union to divert aid. I was getting fat with each false invoice placed on the Board when justifying grants. The money that was accumulating in the 'boat' with the suppliers, UGT-A used it to acquire goods that had nothing to do with the subsidized projects.

The judge has prosecuted 15 people for alleged crimes of subsidy fraud and forgery in a commercial document: the ten responsible for these societies and five former union leaders and their company Soralpe, including former UGT-A secretary general Francisco Fernández Sevilla and former treasurer Federico Fresneda.

Briefcases

The judge has prosecuted the sisters Mónica CE and Diana CE of the company Publish D&M. This company is the one that made five allegedly false invoices to camouflage the cost of 100,238.73 euros that the union made in 700 identical cases to those of a well-known brand, although without the signature logo, and 1,000 pens by Francis Montesinos that UGT -A distributed among the delegates who attended his IX Congress, a scandal reported by this newspaper on December 3, 2013. At this congress, held in September 2009 in Seville, Manuel Pastrana was re-elected as Andalusian Secretary General of UGT. Pastrana has been removed from the legal case and the case has been filed on him for the illness he suffers.

Publish D&M prepared five invoices with concepts that would help the union to justify grants to the Board. In fact, the expense in the allegedly counterfeit briefcases in Asian factories and in the branded pens was charged by UGT-A to four different grants that had European Union funds. One was intended for training courses and another for free legal defense of women discriminated against in their jobs because of sex.

The allegedly false invoice of greater amount prepared by Publish D&M is number 2911040 for 51,236.69 euros corresponding to the advertising of the Forman XXI program. File 98/2008 / J244, the concept that was used to camouflage bags and pens. The Forman XXI program includes training courses for the unemployed.

Interestingly, this file has been left out of the judicial investigation, which has focused exclusively on the period from 2009 to 2013. This subsidy is from the previous year.

Documentation seized by investigators of the Central Operating Unit (UCO) of the Civil Guard by court order includes emails that incriminate Publication D&M. Diana CE, accounting officer of this provider, sent the following email to Lola Sánchez , then head of the UGT-A purchasing department and now processed by the judge: "Do you want an invoice for its actual amount, or for another?" .

In the order known on Wednesday, the judge mentions the aid file 98/2009 / J / 217, under which the Board granted 8 million euros to UGT to do 183 courses. So plagued by irregularities that the amount "not eligible" rises to 7.5 million.

To this aid, UGT irregularly charged invoices from its supplier Siosa, the Madrid company specialized in the installation of computer networks in which there were five detainees, although it has finally only been processed by Judge José Luis CA About invoice number 1 / 2010/1458 of Siosa, the instructor says that "it does not allow to assess the service provided and its eligibility". Therefore, it is not eligible.

Precisely this aid of 8 million euros was irregularly loaded payrolls of José María Moriche, the husband of Susana Díaz, leader of the Andalusian PSOE and former president of the Board, during his time as administrative assistant in Ifes, the UGT entity in charge of giving the courses.

Likewise, the judicial order mentions numerous irregular invoices of Chavsa, the Sevillian firm dedicated to the sale of office furniture that furnished multiple training classrooms of the union where subsidized training courses were taught. Its responsible Simón María CDLF is another of the defendants.

The list of UGT-A providers processed by the judge is completed with José PDA, of the Pineda Press; Diego Francisco DMLC, of ​​Graphic Canvas; Moisés de los Ángeles MM, from Viajes Macarena; Moisés Ángel GG, from Karonte New Developments; and Deseada FA and María Antonieta DG, both of Carpetas Badía.

Another mechanism used by UGT to divert aid was the supposedly fictitious rental of premises and classrooms for which it used the Soralpe company , of which the union was the only partner, and the Ifes.

For this, the union used headquarters that had been assigned by the Government and even ONCE at zero cost. However, UGT-A endorsed bills to the Board for the rental of these premises. The most striking case is that of a property located in the Cadiz municipality of Algeciras, on Baluarte street, for which Soralpe issued an invoice amounting to 129,196.88 euros. Actually, it was a building that the ONCE had given to UGT-A, highlights the court order.

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