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The facts. The Zapatero government "imposed" the looting of 31 million for UGT Asturias
The Anticorruption Prosecutor's Office requests the imputation of the former Secretary of State for Industry of the PSOE
Pedro Luis Marín Uribe
for the diversion of 30 million public euros to the leaders of the UGT in Asturias on the pretext of the construction of a residence for the elderly in the town of
Felechosa
.
The recipients of the money, led by the historic union leader José Ángel Fernández Villa, ended up appropriating most of the funds diverted and were arrested in the framework of the so-called 'Operation Hulla'.
The Public Ministry attributes to Marín Uribe, Secretary of State during the Government of José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, the commission of two crimes of prevarication and embezzlement of public funds and maintains that "influenced by the political and union power that on the date of the events Fernández Villa showed "he folded to the point that his" submission "led him to approve the diversion of public money" without any legal basis, in breach of the few requirements established by the regulations governing subsidies. "
Likewise, he attributes to him having "abused the prerogatives of his position to remove any obstacle that put the granting of public funds at risk.
But also to act with "the most absolute permissibility, which would consummate the diversion of the mining funds that it controlled."
The performance of Miguel Sebastián
Together with Pedro Luis Marín Uribe, the Anticorruption Prosecutor's Office requests the imputation of the main officials of the Ministry of Industry who approved this file.
Anticorruption also takes the opportunity to censure the actions of the former Minister of Industry under the presidency of José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero in this matter,
Miguel Sebastián
.
It argues that "both Marín Uribe and Sebastián disregarded the recommendations made by the State Attorney and the Technical Secretariat of the Ministry of Industry", which warned of the "risky" of "leaving in the hands of a Regional Table" the amount to be awarded to the mentioned nursing home, which ended up being crazy.
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