The key figures in the 'Azud case': from the treasurer to the financing businessmen

• 'Azud' The key message of the plot: "Desalination plant. Two million and one for the party [PSOE]"

• Commissions The PSOE of Valencia paid one million euros to promote Carmen Alborch and María Teresa Fernández de la Vega

The

investigates the alleged payment of illegal commissions to public officials of both the PP and the PSOE to favor the awarding of contracts, mainly linked to urban planning, between 1999 and 2013. What has just been raised is the summary secret of the piece regarding the illegal financing of the PSPV-PSOE, in which the former treasurer along with various businessmen are being investigated.

Who is the alleged ringleader of the corrupt plot?

Jaime Febrer

is the builder indicated as the alleged head of the corrupt network, with proven ability to corrupt politicians of different sign and for years.

He used a whole business network (

) to channel the payment of bribes to both PP and PSPV officials.

The brother-in-law of the former mayoress

,

, was the one who put him in contact with the former deputy mayor of Valencia,

, at the time of the PP government.

On the part of the PSOE, his reference man was the lawyer

, although meetings with the former treasurer were frequent as well.

One of the companies, CVC, signed a contract with Vera for 500,000 euros, of which 302,500 euros would end up being paid to the lawyer.

They were nothing more than illegal commissions in payment for mediation favors before socialist town halls.

What role does Puig's former number two play?

Febrer's lawyer is

, who left his position as socialist spokesman in the Valencian Parliament and in the leadership of the party to assume his defense.

His name has come up in conversations intervened by the Civil Guard to those investigated in the case.

Enrique Gimeno.

Who acted as achievers for the Valencian PSOE?

In the first place is

.

He was responsible for the finances of the PSPV until 2004, although the

investigators consider that he pulled the strings in the party until many years later thanks to his power and influence.

Among the documentation intervened in his house are budgets for electoral campaigns after 2004, which is why he is placed at the center of illegal financing.

His notebooks served to underpin this last piece of

, since he had contacts with large public works contractors and details of allegedly rigged contests.

What evidence points to Catalonia...?

Not only the documentation he was guarding compromises Catalonia, but also his WhatsApp messages with businessmen, which also reveal that he was carrying out procedures for PSPV funders at least until 2019, that is, when

had already been installed in the Palau de la Generalitat four years.

He was suspended from membership in 2021.

... And the historical Vera?

The other great achiever would be José Luis Vera, a lawyer always linked to Valencian socialism.

Until this year he was paid by the Valencia Provincial Council as head of the legal services of a public company.

Through his mediation before socialist charges, he agreed to million-dollar commissions with Febrer, with whose companies he signed contracts to simulate the provision of services.

Jose Luis Vera.

What other businessmen are investigated?

Enrique Gimeno

is one of the defendants in this last piece.

This businessman is the owner of the Sociedad de Fomento Agrícola Castellonense SA (

), through which he controls the water in Castellón.

Confessed financier of the PP, in

he is being investigated because Facsa appears in the summary as a payer of electoral expenses of the PSPV-PSOE.

In 2008, a joint venture of which Facsa was a part was awarded the contract tendered by the state company

for the construction of the desalination plant in

(Castellón).

José María Cataluña would have even made efforts in favor of the businessman before the Valencian Tax Agency in 2019.

Francisco Gigante

, from

, is being investigated for making payments to the advertising companies that carried out the electoral campaigns of the Socialists.

Grupo Axis de Febrer also channeled payments to José Luis Vera through Gigante.

Another of those investigated is

, from Construcciones Luján, awarded works for the

transfer in a supposedly rigged tender.

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