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The Investigating Court number 4 of Oviedo has opened an oral trial for a crime of subsidy fraud to the UGT of Asturias and imposes a bail of 1.6 million euros. The decision has just been adopted after the Oviedo Provincial Court has rejected all the resources of the union organization and five former leaders, including the former secretary general, Justo Rodríguez Braga , to whom the Prosecutor's Office attributes the diversion of 1 , 4 million between 2010 and 2014 from training courses.

The order of judge María Luisa Llaneza , to which EL MUNDO has had access, against which there is no recourse, has set the aforementioned bond for all the accused, considering the UGT as the subsidiary responsible. The instructor warns all of them that if they do not deposit that amount, they will automatically seize all their assets.

The investigation into the diversion of funds from the training courses by the Asturian UGT began in 2014 by the Central Operational Unit ( UCO ) of the Civil Guard after discovering a similar operation in the Andalusian delegation of the union organization.

The Public Ministry has requested that Rodríguez Braga be sentenced to 10 years in prison for having committed a "systematic diversion" of funds through a corporate network linked to him with which he is theoretically dedicated to organizing training courses.

Fraud money, 1.2 million euros

In the opinion of the Prosecutor's Office, "a concerted action was carried out, an operation aimed at the systematic diversion of part of the public funds received, which represented an economic benefit that reverted to the union organization itself."

The distracted money was used, according to accredited research, to pay for structural expenses of the Asturian UGT, mainly to cover the costs of its labor personnel. But also to capitalize a company called Infastur , which covered the losses of a real estate development developed by the union's housing cooperative.

The Public Ministry established that the distraction of funds was implemented "through various subterfuges with which they managed to mask the real costs of execution of the training actions for which they received subsidies, hiding from the Administration from which they received the subsidies the overwhelming incurrence that they incurred "

The General State Intervention quantified at 1,462,666 euros the money diverted for four years, causing a fraud that rises to 1,176,443.41 euros.

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