• Resignation The director of the Civil Guard resigns after her husband was charged in a corruption case and amid the scandal of the 'Barracks case'
  • CHRONICLE 'El Negro', the tip of the iceberg of 137 million public squandered in Linares

The IDEA Agency -the one that paid the funds of the ERE-, public aid -again-, false invoices and three brothers who become partners and (supposedly) enrich themselves by diverting the money that should help Andalusian companies, some bankrupt, such as Santana Motor.

Those are the ingredients of the umpteenth case of corruption in the governments of the PSOE in Andalusia that is investigated in the courts of Seville and that has ended up splashing, and costing him the position, who until yesterday was the general director of the Civil Guard.

Among the three brothers indicated by the Court of Instruction 6 of Seville is the husband of María Gámez, who yesterday justified his resignation by the imputation of her husband, Juan Carlos Martínez, for the diversion of public funds from the IDEA agency to a business plot mounted by the brother of his spouse and that, According to the investigation, he stayed for years with the public money that should be held by the Board's business office in Madrid or for collecting alleged bites from companies that had previously received public subsidies from that same agency, in which Bienvenido Martínez was a senior official.

To do this, he would have founded his own company, Experience Management, through which he would have pocketed money that, at least in part, he transferred to other companies in his family. One of them, precisely, was owned by the husband of the former director of the armed institute.

Juan Carlos Martínez, with a political career in the PSOE and public positions in companies of the Junta, was for more than a year in the focus of the investigation for the suspicious transfers he received from his brother, but had not been formally charged. Until just a week ago.

By means of an order issued on the 16th, Judge José Ignacio Vilaplana took the missing step

Up to 19 times the name of María Gámez's husband appears in the latest report that the Money Laundering and Anti-Corruption Group of the Seville Police Headquarters has drafted with the fruit of its most recent investigations into the final whereabouts of the 137 million euros that successive socialist governments were injecting into Santana. That last report, which reached the Court of Instruction 6 of Seville – the same as the false ERE – speaks of alleged crimes of prevarication, embezzlement, money laundering "and others".

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  • Seville
  • PSOE
  • Civil Guard
  • Corruption
  • Case of the ERE