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The venture capital company of the Andalusian Government, Invercaria , remains in the judicial spotlight for the ruinous and uncontrolled investments it made during the period of the previous socialist government. Researchers have analyzed all kinds of injections of public money in the most disparate projects: from Tatis Olives , a company that wanted to market erotically shaped olives, to an air operator and even clothing items, such as those of Juana Martín or Lolita Canalla .
The list is even longer: it also includes a metal carpentry, a spa , a virtual fair, an animated film and even smart speed bumps that turned out to be a complete bungler.
Precisely on this last business is the piece that the head of the Court of Instruction 16 of Seville, Juan Gutiérrez Casillas , has just finished. Of the thirty pieces in which the cause of alleged corruption was broken down, thirteen are waiting for a trial to be held in the Seville Court, one has already been tried and has an unsigned conviction -that of Olives Tatis- and others are still under investigation. In all of them, the former president of Invercaria Tomás Pérez-Sauquillo is listed as a prosecuted or investigated, who was sentenced to three and a half years in prison at Aceitunas Tatis. The case began to be investigated in 2012.
The investigating judge has just issued an order in which he agrees to follow the proceedings for the formalities of the abbreviated procedure against Pérez-Sauquillo and the former administrator of Badennova SL, JAAG, for the participative loan of 103,000 euros granted by the Board company to said company in December 2009.
Both have been prosecuted for an alleged crime of prevarication , in competition with another for embezzlement of public funds. The judge forwarded the proceedings to the Anticorruption Prosecutor's Office and the accusations so that, in ten days, they request the opening of the oral trial, formulating the indictment, or the dismissal of the case.
Badennova is a company that was incorporated on May 8, 2009 with its registered office in Malaga and an initial capital stock of 1,141,168 euros. Its purpose was the economic exploitation of the business of design, research, development, manufacturing, storage, marketing and distribution of all kinds of products and objects related to R&D with the mobility of both people and vehicles.
The judge's order remarks that Badennova's "final product" was "technically deficient ", as the speed bumps to control the speed of the vehicles " fractured and did not fulfill their purpose."
"No document or act of approval of the project appears" before Invercaria granted the public money, so that "there was no investment proposal that supported the approval of a participative loan under conditions more favorable than the usual ones market at a time when, in fact, when it was granted, there was no prototype of a speed regulation device of which vehicles, which was the object and the essential content of the financing sought and which was granted »by the« authority »Of the former president of Invercaria, says the judge.
Project deficiencies
When Invercaria granted the loan to Badennova, Pérez-Sauquillo already knew the "shortcomings" of the project and the " unreality in the scope of the valuation of the patent that constituted the share capital" of this Malaga company. Despite this, the money was given "without the financing project being analyzed by Invercaria's technicians and" without following the master plan that determines the internal operation "of Invercaria.
In the venture capital company "there is only" as supporting documentation an entry form, a document "that refers to a meeting held on July 2, 2009", in which both investigated and the director of the Department of Promotion of Invercaria, a report from a meeting on September 17, 2009 and a " doubly dated " technical evaluation report , according to the court order.
On the other hand, the instructor decreed the filing of the actions against two other investigated, considering that "it is not duly proven" that they participated in the perpetration of the crime.
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