Courts: The 'godfathers' of the ERE in the Sierra Norte: This is how irregular public aid was achieved
Sierra Norte The judge continues the case for the ERE aid to the Sierra Norte de Sevilla and processes 30 people between high positions and businessmen
The
Sierra Norte de Sevilla
, with which numerous leaders of the Andalusian PSOE and the Junta de Andalucía had close ties, was the Andalusian region that, by far, more millions hoarded the so-called 'reptile fund' of the ERE than during a decade served to pay favors and buy wills in the stage of the previous Andalusian socialist governments.
After a decade in judicial investigation, the 'godfathers' of the ERE in the Sierra Norte and their formidable clientele network finally come to trial.
It is one of the
130 pieces
in which the macrocause of the ERE was detached, in which there were more than 500 people charged.
The money allegedly diverted in this corruption case, the largest ever investigated in Spain, amounts to
679.25 million
euros distributed between 2000 and 2009.
The piece on the Sierra Norte that comes to trial deals with
18 grants worth 22 million
euros that were received by countless companies in the area.
Sausage and ham companies, a cheese factory, oil cooperatives and tourist firms, among others, benefited.
The reinforcement judge of the Court of Instruction number 6 of Seville,
José Ignacio Vilaplana
, has just issued an order in which he orders the opening of
oral
proceedings
against 30 people
for alleged crimes of embezzlement and administrative prevarication related to these aid that received countless companies located in the Sierra Norte de Sevilla, where
Javier Guerrero
, the recently deceased former General Director of Labor of the Board, came from, who managed the budget item 31-L of the EREs at will for a decade.
Two former mayors of the PSOE
and the wife of one of them
benefited from the rain of millions of the Junta
;
the director of a bank, his daughter and his niece;
a
PSOE
councilor
and her daughter;
Guerrero's secretary and her husband;
and even the alleged 'camel' who sold cocaine to Javier Guerrero's driver for the parties of both, according to the statement of the former driver of the Board.
The former mayors of the PSOE
The former mayors who will sit on the bench are
Carmelo Montero Cabezas
, former alderman of Guadalcanal, former president of several societies and one of the three godfathers of the Sierra Norte who pulled their strings so that the money would flow irregularly from the public coffers from the Board to companies in the area;
and
José Antonio Méndez
, former mayor of El Real de la Jara.
The latter received 50,000 euros from the ERE through a company dedicated to the production of cheese and meat products in which his wife appeared, who will also go to court.
The cheese factory closed a year after receiving the help of the ERE.
The former councilor of the PSOE of Cazalla
Julia Piñero
received 900,000 euros in a society in which
her sister and daughter were also present
.
With sunglasses, Rocío Sayago, Guerrero's former secretary.JESÚS MORÓN
Guerrero's personal secretary on the Board
Rocío Sayago
pocketed another 60,000 euros in a company that she set up with her husband.
Gregorio Martínez
, the alleged 'drug dealer' of Javier Guerrero and his driver,
also appears on the list of those accused
.
The company Promociones Vinícolas de Sevilla SL -created in October 2005 and of which Gregorio Martínez was sole administrator- received a subsidy of
444,749 euros
from the Ministry of Employment
, of which it only received 90,081 euros.
The money was advanced by the Villasís Law Firm, three of whose lawyers are charged in other pieces of the fraudulent ERE.
Juan Francisco Trujillo Blanco
, a former driver from Guerrero, confessed to Judge Mercedes Alaya that Gregorio Martínez was the person who bought cocaine from the General Director of Labor and that he was the person who introduced him to other camels in the Sevillian neighborhood of Las Tres Thousand Homes from which the driver continued to buy drugs for himself and his boss.
Trujillo Blanco stated that he spent up to
25,000 euros a month on cocaine
for himself and Javier Guerrero, and that most of the money came from the 'reptile fund' of the Junta de Andalucía.
Among the 30 people who will sit on the bench for aid from the Sierra Norte is also
Antonio Bermejo
, the former head of the
sausage company
that connects the ERE with the UGT case.
This company, called Pema Jamones y Embutidos, received 700,000 euros from the ERE.
The three godparents
Former high-ranking member of the Board Daniel Alberto Rivera, wearing sunglasses.JESÚS MORÓN
But undoubtedly the most relevant role in the plot of the Sierra Norte falls on those known as the 'godfathers':
Manuel Enrique Rodríguez Contreras
, former provincial manager in Seville of the Andalusian Development Institute (IFA), later converted into the IDEA Agency , the ERE payroll;
the former mayor of Guadalcanal
Carmelo Montero
;
and
Guerardo de la Cruz
, head of the zone in those years of the Caja San Fernando banking entity.
Rodríguez and the former director of Labor met at the
headquarters of the PSOE in Las Navas
with the businessmen who received the aid and then blessed the former Minister of Employment
José Antonio Viera
- already condemned for in the political piece of the ERE -, with the one that the then manager of the IFA maintained a “close” relationship.
Precisely on these three 'godparents', the judge imposes the
highest bonds
.
The former director of the IFA must contribute 2.3 million;
the former mayor, 2.4 million;
and the former bank manager, 2.8 million.
The judge warns all the defendants that, if they do not provide the bonds, "assets will be seized in sufficient quantity" to guarantee the more than 31 million indicated together.
Another defendant is the former General Director of Board Work
Daniel Alberto Rivera
, whose bail is 12,800 euros, one of the smallest set by the judge.
All these aid, according to the judge, "would have been awarded in an
unfair and arbitrary manner,
regardless of the principles and procedures legally established for this, without a minimum compliance with the requirements and budgets that regulate the granting of public aid or subsidies."
Despite the large number of aid that will be seen in the trial, they are not the only ones that monopolized companies in the Sierra Norte.
This piece does not include the 32 million aid that was awarded to the former socialist councilors of El Pedroso
José Enrique Rosendo
, now deceased, and
José María Sayago
.
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