The president of the Generalitat, Carlos Mazonassured during the plenary session of the Courts that he would ask the Lawyers of the Generalitat to appeal the expiration of the procedures to recover the 170,000 euros collected in subsidies by companies belonging to the brother of former president Ximo Puig and that the reimbursement procedure begins again.
In response to a question from the Vox Mediator, Jose Maria Llanosregarding the measures he intends to take to recover the 170,000 euros that the Botànic Government did not claim from Francis Puig for subsidies to his company, Mazón announced that he would issue two orders to the Generalitat Prosecutor’s Office.
First of all, you will ask that appeal the expiration of legal proceedings so that the Valencians recover the 170,000 euros that “former minister Vicent Marzà forgave Puig” and secondly that the refund procedure starts again to demand that they return the money “once and for all to all Valencians”.
The president indicated that a few weeks ago the file had been opened to carry out the audits which “They will control the waste and irregularities of Botànic during the 8 years.”
They will rely on reports from independent experts who “say that there was 2,000 people hired without authorization, or they will investigate to find out if 786 million euros were allocated from hand to hand and without a file“In addition, he added, “on May 12, the Court of Auditors notified the opening of a preliminary procedure following the audit reports on the 2022 accounts of the Generalitat.”
Some reports that “investigate alleged irregularities in the execution of contracts for the provision of health care services.
In this sense, he asked the members of the Botànic Government to “stop weaving smokescreens”. Now, he says, “we began to understand why there were so many people on waiting lists for surgery: because they were full of irregularities.”
They are also under investigation, he added: “irregularities in the grant reimbursement process of the Department of Equality and Inclusive Policies”. That is, “they gave subsidies and did not care whether they would be returned when the requirements were not met.”
Furthermore, “we were amazed to see how they used public resources to benefit those close to Ximo Puig“. The straw that broke the camel’s back, he added, “was reading in the newspapers that the reason they were not demanding repayment of irregular grants was due to lack of staff” while It was a government, he said, “the most expensive in history with more advisors and more connected and placed.
He spoke of this sentence which “shows that for three or four days, the entire Comunitat Valenciana has lost 170,000 euros which went into the pockets of the friends of the brother of former president Puig”.
The Economic Crime Unit, said the president, claims that the subsidies were justified in the Community “with videos from Aragon and Catalonia in Spanish.” “The truth, Jaume, I would be proud to see how much the Crown of Aragon still has its roots in the brothers of Ximo Puig“.
For Mazón, it is necessary to take into account that the companies against which the reimbursement of the subsidies was directed not only did not respect the conditions to obtain them, but in addition “have already been sanctioned by the Community Competition Commission Valencian in 2020, with a fine of 26,000 euros for a very serious offense, but there was no staff to pursue it.”
In your question, Llanos (Vox) assured that these 170,000 euros had not been claimed from Puig and “The Valencians are tired of so many corruption plots between friends, family and acquaintances of the Botànic” and of something that “was the direct responsibility of Marzà who did not provide aid to the partners of Mr. Puig’s brother to the prosecutor.
“The question of whether or not there is a criminal offense will be decided by the courts”, but “Puig’s partners will not have to return to the Generalitat more than 170,000 euros in subsidies for the promotion of Valencian”. A “mistake” by the Puig government was an “open door to evade payment,” according to the Vox representative.