It showed that the board had clawed back €6.8 million in aid provided for business “survival plans” between 2001 and 2010
Seville, November 21st. (European Press Agency) –
The Court of Auditors reported on Tuesday that it had ruled on the reimbursement procedure within the scope of the social labor assistance provided by the Ministry of Employment of the Government of Andalusia for the early retirement of workers of the company Saldauto Sevilla SAL, through the financing mechanism of fraudulent employment regulatory documents (ERE); announced Provision of €498,815 to the Regional Fund.
In this resolution, according to a statement of the Court of Auditors, the successor to the position of Director of the General Directorate of Labor of the Military Government of Andalusia during the first half of the period referred to in the facts of the indictment, Francisco Javier Gray The case of Francisco Javier Guerrero, who died in October 2020 and was a victim of pneumonia, was heard in a Seville court regarding the financing of “specific procedures” orchestrated by the Andalusian military junta to conceal fraudulent collective dismissals and arbitrary He was found guilty of corruption and prevarication in the aid ruling. company.
The person who succeeded the previous director of labor of the Andalusian military junta, in this case Juan Marquez, was sentenced to three years in prison and was also declared the direct accounting officer for the amount of 298,814.93 euros. The above-mentioned “specific procedures” are currently suspended.
Specifically, the Junta de Andalusia provided a total of €1,837,229.88 in aid to Saldauto Sevilla, of which €1,637,229.88 was used to finance 100% of the company’s voluntary early retirement. Three of the early retirement beneficiaries were not employees of this company. , the so-called “intruder”.
On the other hand, regarding the execution of the final conviction, stipulated in the scope reimbursement procedure related to the aid aimed at financing the company’s survival plan, which was granted by the Andalusian military junta between 2001 and 2010, the court stated, The Junta de Andalusia has recovered a total of 6,818,000 euros, of which 5,935,000 euros have been returned to the state treasury as a result of administrative actions carried out since January 1, 2022 to date.
In January this year, the current Andalusian Popular Party government claimed that it had administratively recovered approximately 23 million euros of the approximately 680 million euros released by the Andalusian government through the above-mentioned ERE financing mechanism and arbitrary assistance to enterprises.