The Generalitat subsidized the hiring of Ximo Puig's son through his brother's plot

• Anti-Corruption Courts close the fence on Puig's brother and point to duplicate or unpaid invoices in aid to the Valencian

The Generalitat ended up subsidizing the hiring of the son of the Valencian president, the socialist

, in the company of his uncle, businessman Francis Puig, brother therefore of the president of the Generalitat himself.

This subsidy, which was granted in its day by the Ministry of Economy (in the hands of Compromís), is one of those that are under suspicion in the legal case that has

, his partner

and his partner Enrique Adell Bover accused of alleged subsidy fraud.

to the general director of Linguistic Policy of the Generalitat, the person in charge of granting aid for the promotion of Valencian that constitutes the other leg of the lawsuit promoted by the PP.

The

commissioned by the court includes the operation through which Francis Puig managed to obtain a

in 2018 .

This is the program of the former Valencian Employment Service (Servef) to promote the hiring of qualified young people.

Pau Puig was one of them, so his uncle Francis decided to incorporate him into his company

, whose parent company is Comunicacions dels Ports (sanctioned by Competition along with other companies in the plot for setting up a cartel to agree on prices and take a Valencian public television contract).

With the incorporation of Pau Puig, Mas Mut obtained a grant of 18,544.68 euros, which he applied for on October 29, 2018, that is, two days before the deadline to be eligible for public aid.

However, the Civil Guard report states that only four days before Francis's company presented itself for the call, Ximo Puig's son registered with the Servef de Vinaròs (Castellón).

Hiring a young job seeker was an essential requirement to be a beneficiary of the subsidy.

, is exposed in the 388-page report that this newspaper has had access to.

However, Pau himself decided to leave his uncle's company just a few months later, on January 20, 2019, "calling attention to the fact that having carried out the contract with such little time for the deadline to apply for the subsidy and even more so when dealing with of a nephew who gives up voluntarily", according to the report.

The document also emphasizes that the

.

The Civil Guard points out more alleged irregularities, since Pau -hired as a tourism editor, for which he provided a title- was

.

The coverage of that square was essential to maintain the subsidy.

However, "it is striking that although it is the same type of contract that is carried out, the functions vary, since we went from hiring a tourism editor to a sound technician-editor."

The new worker, in fact, contributed the title of technician in Disc-jockey and Sound.

Ximo Puig has always maintained that he has nothing to do with his brother's business, to the point that this very week he has appealed for judicial autonomy and has stressed that "if someone does something that is not correct and the Justice determines, he must bear his responsibility".

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