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The fraud of the training courses was not a bluff, as maintained by Susana Díaz's previous socialist government, nor is it completely closed. The Andalusian Executive of the PP and Citizens, chaired by Juanma Moreno, currently continues to pull the thread about the monumental entanglement with the millionaire subsidies for training and has already managed to resolve 3,325 records of past call courses that were still not closed .

Of the cases analyzed, it has opened a total of 245 reimbursement files for subsidies that were not well justified. And it claims the return of 64,350,601.79 euros , according to sources in the WORLD Ministry of Employment, Training and Autonomous Work, directed by Rocío Blanco (Cs) , told EL MUNDO . In some cases, a full refund of the grant is requested and, in others, a partial refund of the aid.

A part of these files is now in the Superior Court of Justice of Andalusia ( TSJA ), since the beneficiaries of the aid for the courses to whom the Board requires them to return have exercised their right to go to court because they are not according to the refund.

In this situation is, for example, the former Board member, converted years later into an entrepreneur from the Ángel Ojeda formation , whose network of companies and foundations monopolized more than 50 million euros in course grants. Ojeda is also the main defendant in the judicial investigation carried out by the Investigating Court 6 of Seville on the fraud of the training courses.

The Board, in the stage of the socialist Díaz in the Government, opened countless reinstatement files for Ojeda to return the aid. But Ojeda turned to the courts and is achieving numerous victories in the form of sentences that prove him right. Some rulings are favorable to Ojeda because the files have expired due to the time elapsed.

But not all beneficiaries of subsidies to whom the Board has now demanded their return have gone to court. Another part of those affected by the 245 reimbursement files opened have been granted a postponement of the return of the aid, through resolutions issued by the territorial delegations or the General Directorate of Vocational Training for Employment, said the sources of Employment.

Only a "small percentage" , which the sources consulted could not specify, has paid the Board the amounts required for courses that were not duly justified.

Stored in a drawer

Among the refund files resolved by Employment is also one that affects the Andalusian federation of UGT and that the previous Government of Susana Díaz kept in a drawer and was about to prescribe , as reported by this newspaper. In October 2019, the Board demanded that this union, which runs the Andalusian Secretary General Carmen Castilla , return 18 million euros -12.5 corresponding to the amount of the subsidy and another 5.5 of interest- for courses that do not justified correctly.

Millionaire claim

In the midst of the scandal over the alleged diversions of UGT-A subsidies that this newspaper began to document from 2013, the Díaz government began an internal investigation and opened several files for reinstatement of the union. One of them, corresponding to the grant for courses in 2007, started it on March 18, 2014. On September 16, 2015, it agreed to demand from UGT-A the reimbursement of the total amount of aid -12.5 million- plus the corresponding interests. But the file was never finalized.

When the Government of Juanma Moreno launched a shock plan to control the chaos that existed with the subsidies for the courses, it discovered in September 2019 that it was "very close to prescribing the right of the regional treasury to claim the debt" of 12.5 million to UGT-A. The file with the millionaire claim had been kept in a drawer of the Board for four years, since November 2015.

Precisely to avoid these situations and that the records prescribe, the Employment Ministry continues to classify, refine and periodically analyze the situation of the course records, whose full review must end at the latest on December 31, 2021 .

Since the arrival of the current team led by counselor Blanco, attempts have been made to "refine and classify" the situation of the files that "we have found to reduce the balance of releases pending justification."

Precisely on February 10, 2020, the Ministry of the Ministry of Finance, Industry and Energy issued a decree-law to promote the process of justification, verification and reimbursement of subsidies pending justification. The objective is to reduce the amounts without justification and to speed up the checks on the aid files.

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