• Justice forces the Andalusian government to pay more than four million euros to companies receiving training aid
• The Ministry has to pay the entire subsidy granted, without having verified its legality.
• Teresa Ruiz Sillero denounces the "sit-down strategy" of the Junta, which has caused a "surreal situation"
The spokesperson for Employment of the Popular Group in the Andalusian Parliament, Teresa Ruiz Sillero, has revealed today the existence of 28 convictions against the Junta de Andalucía "for not reviewing the Training for Employment subsidy files on time"; a fact, in the opinion of the people's deputy, "tremendously serious", since it means that the Board will have to pay more than four million euros to companies that receive training aid, "without the legality of the same having been verified ”.
Ruiz Sillero said that it is a "surreal" situation, in which 22 of the sentences favorable to the companies correspond to the framework of the former socialist councilor Ángel Ojeda, who has various legal cases open regarding professional training for employment. "Those companies that have received aid that are under judicial investigation have filed appeals in court to request the liquidation of 25% of the final payment of the subsidy, and since the Junta de Andalucía has not reviewed those files, the Andalusian government is now condemned to payment, amount to which must be added the payment of interest and legal costs.
In total it would be 3,7 million euros, of which 2,3 million would go to the business network of Ojeda. To these amounts, interest should be added, around one million euros, plus legal costs.
The Andalusian PP Employment spokesperson continued by saying that it is the Board's own lawyer who answers the Justice asking that these sentences be paralyzed, "since the subsidies could be declared criminally illegal" by the Justice. "The Justice says that this matter is being investigated in the judicial macro-cause, and that the Board must fulfill its obligation and review the files," continued the popular deputy, who regretted that not only "the money is not being recovered" but also that "we continue to lose it."
Likewise, he warned that more could be added to these sentences.
Ruiz Sillero denounced that the Andalusian government has "hidden" these sentences from public opinion, and that they are, he stated, "a consequence of the sit-down strategy of the Junta de Andalucía", which has "unreviewed files from more than ten years ago years".
In addition, he pointed to the "nervousness" of the members of the Andalusian government when the PP criticizes the actions of Susana Díaz in this matter, "either by action or by omission", which has caused, he continued, "that the PSOE and Ciudadanos have censured the appearance of the Board's Comptroller General in Parliament”.
In this sense, he explained that the Andalusian government is failing to comply with the recommendations of the nine reports and the report on the action of the Intervention, and that only 11 million have been recovered, when 149 million are claimed. "The Board is not complying with the recommendations signed by the Comptroller General and the money is not being recovered," he added.
The PP will ask the Andalusian government for explanations in the control session this Thursday in the Andalusian Parliament.
SENTENCES THE FORMER GENERAL SECRETARY OF UNIVERSITIES
On the other hand, the popular deputy demanded that the president of the Junta, Susana Díaz, offer "public apologies" after the one-year prison sentence and fine of the former Secretary General of Universities, Research and Technology of the Junta de Andalucía, Francisco Triguero, for a crime of subsidy fraud.
Ruiz Sillero recalled that Díaz "kept Triguero in office for more than a year while he was charged, despite the fact that Parliament had requested his dismissal through a PP initiative that was approved by the Economy Commission in 2014 ”.
He stressed that “once again, as in the case of ERE or training, we are facing another case of fraud with subsidies from the Board; a fraud concocted and put into practice by the Andalusian government”.
