IU attributes to Podemos the payments to Neurona

• Justice. The former lawyer of Podemos, before the judge: "The contracts of Podemos with the consulting firm Neurona were simulated"

• Courts: The judge imputes the administrator of Podemos for an electoral crime for the payments to the Chavista consultancy Neurona

The financial manager of Izquierda Unida (IU),

, today attributed to Podemos the responsibility of hiring the Chavista consultancy

to carry out work for the 2019 general election campaign. García Ramos, who declared this Friday as investigated before the judge investigating the alleged irregular financing of the party led by Pablo Iglesias, explained that despite the payments being made through the coalition made up of both formations, the decision corresponded to Podemos.

"At IU we had a very humble budget," he explained, and "was only dedicated to

electoral

."

However, he downloaded

all the jobs related to "political consulting, social media analysis, Big Data or audiovisual jobs, and advertising

into the

training

."

In this way, he explained that "each training was in charge of its respective providers" and that Neurona in no case had any relationship with the IU coalition.

It should be remembered that Unidos Podemos (Podemos-IU) hired this Mexican consulting firm for an amount of

and that the funds, as has already been confirmed by the

's

of the Court of Accounts, were not used for the electoral work for which they officially came out from the party coffers.

On the contrary, the investigation led by judge

has proven that most of them, at least 308,000 euros, left Spain in the direction of an instrumental company called

, which lacks material and human resources and whose headquarters are located in a house in a neighborhood in the Mexican town of

.

This entity, officially administered by the Mexican citizen

, has barely registered activity in recent years and the most relevant event in which it appears to have participated is in the installation of sound and lighting for a fair related to raicilla, a local drink, in the municipality of

, with just 9,000 inhabitants.

In line with the Prosecutor's Office of the Court of Accounts, the former head of Podemos Regulatory Compliance,

, testified as a witness in this case and assured that the payments to Neurona were "simulated" and that "the work was never carried out."

Carmona said that she was informed of these events by "party officials" who had "direct knowledge of the events" and who want to maintain their anonymity "for fear of reprisals that the party may adopt against them."

IU's budget was very humble, consulting was a thing of Podemos

Along with García Ramos, the manager of the Neurona subsidiary in Spain,

,

declared before the judge

, who denied any contact with members of Podemos and assured that he limited himself to advising the Chavista consultancy on tax issues through his office, located in the Sevillian municipality of

.

Castejón added that the Sevillian law firm

participated in the constitution of the company Neurona Comunidad

.

This office has clarified to this newspaper that "since the client is not resident in Spain" it requested the "recommendation of a professional who could manage the company in Spain", which is why they turned to Castejón, "lawyer and specialist in tax advice, labor and accounting ».

One of the latest developments in the investigation of the Neurona case, as revealed by

, has been the discovery by the Economic and Fiscal Crime Unit (UDEF) of a new home located in another neighborhood of the Mexican municipality of Guadalajara in the one that ended the Podemos electoral funds.

The Judicial Police confirm that most of the payments to Neurona ended up in a

slum on

in the neighborhood called

.

However, investigators have discovered a new "registered office" for this front on Calle Día number 2674 in

.

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