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A group of former employees of a company based in

, one of the areas hardest hit by unemployment in the country, intended to

and keep their jobs, but along the way they committed

that have sitting on the bench of the accused, in the

of the ERE that began this Tuesday in the Seville Court.

The five defendants received allegedly illegal aid from the ERE amounting to

and with that money they paid Social Security debts from the old company where they worked, something totally irregular, since, in theory, the funds of the ERE were to develop the projects of the new company, dedicated to manufacturing

and other aluminum elements.

All this was done to "

and create new ones in a rather depressing area," José Luis FJ, one of the five defendants, alleged on Tuesday.

This defendant added that, of the money they received from the Employment Council of the Board,

, since most of it was used to pay debts with Social Security.

Despite the excuses of the accused, the Anti-Corruption Prosecutor asks for each of them a sentence of

and eight years of disqualification for prevarication in competition with embezzlement.

The macro-cause of the ERE is the largest case of corruption ever investigated in the country due to the volume of fraud, close to

.

That sum is what was distributed over a decade, in an opaque and

manner , by the successive Andalusian governments of the PSOE to maintain

.

This macrocause is currently divided into

.

The fourth trial of the ERE that began yesterday at the Court is one of them.

Manufacturas Metálicas SL in

sit on the bench

.

This company received from the Board the aid of 420,708.47 euros that came from budget item 31L, also known as

.

In the ERE, there are companies that received direct aid like this one from La Línea and others that were beneficiaries of funds to retire workers early.

During the trial, several defendants agreed to admit that most of the ERE aid granted by the Board was used to pay the Social Security debt of another company,

, (Industrias Domésticas Inoxidables del Sur SAL), in which the five defendants were previously working.

In fact, Novomag arises because from the Junta de Andalucía, specifically from the old IFA, converted into the

, they are told that in order to receive public aid they must create a new company, since Idisur accumulated endless

of the administration.

"Bare-chested"

And they do it like that.

At the IDEA Agency "they appreciated us because we went bare-chested and with the truth ahead," said Juan Manuel PB, another of the defendants, who went from being a member of the works council to CEO of Idisur, during the trial.

He recounted the years of

that they maintained so that Magefesa, where he began to work in 1971, did not close the La Línea de la Concepción center.

The Idisur company was created after the Magefesa crisis.

Of the almost 80 workers who were on the Magefesa staff, about thirty remained, who set up Idisur.

With the compensation to which they were entitled, they took over the

was located, as José Luis FL

recounted.

, as I was," he said.

The help of the ERE came after holding a meeting in Seville with the late

, then General Director of Labor.

"And

that no one on the Board asked you to justify the aid?" asked prosecutor Manuel Fernández Guerra.

«No, because we were a group of workers».

The ruling of the Supreme may affect the rest of the trials

While the Criminal Chamber of the Supreme Court (TS) plans to hold on May 4 and 5 the hearing of the appeals filed against the sentence of the First Section of the Court of Seville corresponding to the specific procedure through which the Board of Andalusia financed allegedly fraudulent or unnecessary employment regulation files (ERE) and direct and allegedly arbitrary aid;

the president of the Superior Court of Justice of Andalusia (TSJA), Lorenzo del Río, has considered that the resolution of these resources may have a "legal" impact on the "treatment of the following trials" in the matter.

On the occasion of a visit to Seville for the meeting held in the Andalusian capital by the Government Chamber of the TSJA, Lorenzo del Río has stated that it is still unknown "what interpretation will be given" by the Supreme Court to the appeals filed against the aforementioned ruling of the Section First of the Hearing of Seville, a judicial resolution that condemns 19 of the 21 former high-ranking socialist officials judged, among them the former regional presidents Manuel Chaves and José Antonio Griñán.

The opinion of the Supreme Court, as it has considered, "may have an impact, but more than anything legal, in the treatment of the following trials" on the matter, alluding to the burden borne by the criminal sections of the Seville Court for the trials derived from the numerous separate pieces in which this macro cause is divided, also facing trials of other macro causes of regional scope.

The aforementioned sentence, of 1,821 pages and notified on November 19, 2019, sentences the former president of the Junta de Andalucía José Antonio Griñán to six years and two days in jail and 15 years and two days of special disqualification for embezzlement and prevarication continued, while his predecessor in office, Manuel Chaves, was sentenced to nine years of special disqualification for prevarication.

For his part, the former Employment Minister Antonio Fernández was sentenced to 7 years, 11 months and one day in prison and absolute disqualification for a period of 19 years, 6 months and one day for a continued crime of prevarication in medial contest with another continued of embezzlement, while the former directors José Antonio Viera (Employment) and Francisco Vallejo (Innovation) were each sentenced to 7 years and one day in prison and absolute disqualification for a period of 18 years and one day, in both cases for a continued crime of prevarication in medial contest with a continued one of embezzlement.

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