Investigation: The keys to the Isofotón case, the cause of alleged corruption that sparks the governments of Chaves, Griñán and Susana Díaz
Courts: The judge investigates the Government Councils of Chaves, Griñán and Susana Díaz for Isofotón's pufo
Two government ministers chaired by the socialist Pedro Sánchez have been splattered by the judicial instruction that is being followed in a court in Seville on the case of alleged corruption of Isofoton, the Malaga photovoltaic company that closed after irregularly receiving more than
80 million euros
of public funds during the stage of the previous Andalusian governments of the PSOE.
The ministers affected are María Jesús Montero, spokesperson for the central government and Minister of Finance, and Luis Planas, head of the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food.
Both were Andalusian directors in 2012, with José Antonio Griñán as Chairman of the Board, and their councils were part of the delegated commission for Economic Affairs in which the investment proposal was modified to grant a loan of
8.3 million
to the company Isofoton, who is now investigating the Court of Instruction 3 of Seville.
EL MUNDO has had access to the order of the head of the Investigative Court 3,
Patricia Fernández
, dated February 5, in which it asks the Council of the Presidency of the Board to provide the court with the minutes of the
commission delegated to Economic Affairs
dated July 3, 2012, of which the Andalusian councils led by the now ministers María Jesús Montero and Luis Planas were part.
The judge asks the Board to deliver this record after the Anti-Corruption Prosecutor's Office so requests.
In her letter, the representative of the Public Ministry points to Montero and Planas, by claiming the 2012 minutes of the Economic Affairs commission in which
the two
Andalusian
councils
that both led participated.
Anticorruption recalls that the delegated commission for Economic Affairs is chaired by the Chairman of the Board -in July 2012 it was Griñán-, and the Minister of Economy, at that time
Antonio Ávila
, holds the vice-presidency
.
"Other members are the departments of Finance and Public Administration, Public Works and Housing, Employment, Agriculture and Fisheries [at that time its head was
Luis Planas
], Tourism, Commerce and Sports, Equality and Social Welfare [then headed by
María Jesús Montero
], Culture and Environment, "the prosecutor's brief details.
Among the functions of this Committee for Economic Affairs of the Board is "to
examine and deliberate
on all those relevant proposals in matters that have economic content or affect the Andalusian economy as a whole or relevant sectors, regardless of the formal instrument in which they are plasme ", recalls the prosecutor.
The request for the minutes of the Economic Affairs Commission is added to another requirement made by the investigating judge last October, when she asked the Board, chaired by Juanma Moreno (PP), to provide "the minutes of the Governing Council of the years 2005 to 2015, both included ".
By covering this entire period of time, the judicial investigation into the alleged corruption in Isofoton fully reaches the management of three former socialist presidents of the Junta de Andalucía.
Manuel Chaves was President of the Andalusian Government between July 1990 and April 2009;
Griñán, between April 2009 and September 2013;
and Susana Díaz between September 2013 and January 2019.
Chaves and Griñán have already been convicted in the so-called 'political piece' of the ERE by the Seville Court, although the ruling is not yet final, since it is being appealed to the Supreme Court.
The Court of Instruction 3 of Seville is investigating whether, after the
millionaire injections of public funds
by the Board in Isofoton, there are alleged crimes of embezzlement of public funds, prevarication and documentary falsification.
It is investigated if the aid had the authorizations and mandatory procedures, if the budget allocation limit of the IDEA Agency loans was exceeded and "if, indeed, they had been granted regardless of the correct channels," the judge specifies in a car .
The credit of 2012
The last letter of the Prosecutor's Office recalls that the entity of the Soprea Board granted a loan to Isofoton worth
8,395,854 euros
to meet "partially" the payment obligations derived from the acquisition of cells and panels destined to obtain solar energy .
"With gross negligence bordering on the intention"
, the Board approved the loan to Isofoton "due to the strategic importance" of the Malaga photovoltaic plant, despite the fact that the data on the company "are not verified" and were "unreliable", warns Anti-Corruption.
The loan was granted by the Board "with knowledge of the
existing defaults
in the aid granted previously" to Isofoton by the IDEA Agency - says the Prosecutor's Office - and "in order to allow the repayment of a previous loan" , something that finally was not done.
Among the "obligations" of Isofoton, it had to keep "at least
702 workers
in its workforce" and "will not be able to declare or distribute dividends or agree to any payment in favor of its shareholders, partners and administrators, or of its subsidiaries, or of the people linked to them ".
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