The judge in the Púnica case has terminated the investigation of one of the branches of the case and has proposed trying 21 people for contracts in three Madrid town halls. One of the defendants is the former general secretary of the Madrid PP and former mayor of Valdemoro Francisco Granados. The accounts of the popular politician in Switzerland, in which the money supposedly obtained in this corrupt activity entered, were the ones that started the macro-cause.
The magistrate of the National Court Manuel García Castellón also sees sufficient evidence to sit businessman David Marjaliza and his wife on the bench, as well as three other former mayors of Valdemoro. Also on the list is a former mayor of Moraleja de Enmedio and people related to the municipalities of Torrejón de Velasco and Serranillos del Valle. Two investigated finally stay out of the car with which the instruction is concluded.
The resolution of the head of the Sixth Central Investigating Court considers that the defendants committed crimes of bribery, prevarication and disclosure of reserved and secret information, influence peddling and fraud.
As the order explains, separate piece five of the Punic case, focused on investigating administrative contracting in Valdemoro, Torrejón de Velasco and Serranillos del Valle, “has allowed us to verify a series of practices by the municipal managers responsible for the contracting procedure, aimed at ensuring the award of the administrative contract tendered to a certain company”.
In all the contracts, he indicates, there is a direct or indirect influence on the part of the businessman Marjaliza. “It is about ensuring that the company finally proposed by the contracting authority is precisely the one that interests the employer in each case,” says the judge.
There were different ways to do it. In one of the cases, the Marjaliza influenced those responsible for the bidding procedure, and also participated in the procedure through a company directly or indirectly under his control. Regarding the first of the cases described, the businessman acknowledged that he had paid 300,000 euros in commissions.
In others, the employer influenced those responsible for the bidding procedure, and achieved the award of the contract despite not concurring in it the necessary legal budgets.
Lastly, there were contracts in which the businessman participated through a company directly or indirectly under his control, managed to win the contract through his influence and thus caused economic damage to the council.
In Valdemoro, the management contracts for the regulated parking service (SER), the administrative concessions for cafeterias, parking lots, the municipal towing service, the operation of sports facilities and even the collection services for used clothing and shoes have been investigated, among others. .
The judge recounts how Marjaliza was informed sufficiently in advance about the start of the tenders, to be able to prepare the necessary documentation, “with an obvious advantage over possible rivals, thus ensuring his award.”
As for Torrejón de Velasco and Serranillos del Valle, the order indicates that as compensation for the awards, the businessman could have paid for political surveys as “one of the formulas used to pay for favors obtained from the City Council to benefit his companies.” .
The order that transforms the proceedings into an abbreviated procedure gives the Prosecutor’s Office and the popular accusations a period of 10 days to present their indictment. Unless the Criminal Chamber to which those affected can appeal revokes the order, the judge will then issue the order to open the oral trial.
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