"Those involved boast CiU political influence.
Road construction in Girona is something of a select few. A dozen companies have formed asfalteras there a kind of holy alliance to share with the connivance of a senior official of the Government, the award of public works.
The investigation of this alleged plot corrupt has resulted so far with three detainees, one of them, the manager of Highway GISA public company in Girona, Jordi Verge-and another 15 businessmen were declared to the Civil Guard. (...)
wiretapping included in the summary of the case reveal the operation almost Mafioso these companies, which threatened to isolate the builders who did not join the group.
"Or are you a clan, and then it works, or go to death. It is clear," he says in one conversation the manager of an asphalt industry. The
involved boast of their supposed power to influence Convergence and Union positions and have allegedly with the connivance of Verge, which the researchers claimed 35,000 euros (in denominations of 500) from John Porter, Chief Executive of Tarrés Rubau company. Both
an appointment at a nearby car park of Sicily to the streets of Barcelona. The senior rebuked the employer: "Listen, you, that's not what you said, huh? Here is some confusion."
The confusion was that the commission provided for amounted to 60,000 euros Vergé not 35.000.Extrañado, Porter called the president of the developer, Josep Rubau also charged. "It's been a rare thing. I left that in Barcelona. And he said that nothing else is 35," said Mozo. To which Rubau also puzzled, replies, "I counted them, but let me look at it. Relax, do not worry, you." Verge
addressed the technical committee of at least six cases of GISA award of contracts between March 2009 and October 2010, for a total of 8.5 million. The network companies such works were carried by paved sections of the AP-7.
The senior has several accounts and two luxury cars BMW, as recorded after the owner of the Court of Investigation No. 5 in Barcelona, \u200b\u200bwhich carries the GISA case, ordered to investigate its accounts.
With inside information allegedly supplied them Verge (starting price, etc.), companies were based asphalt clan advantage. Not only that. Price-fixing and were sometimes higher.
This means that in some cases the financial offers were identical to the euro cent: 60,008.42 euros for the asphalt on a section of a road from Girona, to cite one example.
(...) In all competitions, although attended by dozens of companies (sometimes over 70), awards always relapsed within 10.Construcciones Rubau, Aglomerats Girona, Servia Cantó, Fusté Building, Agustí i Masoliver (AMSA), Xavier Alsina, Dragados, Romero Gamero (Roma), Firtec, Copisa, Asfaltec, Arico Forest and Àrids Vilanna are some of those involved, according to the Guardia Civil.Fraud Office in Catalonia, who also participated in the investigation concludes that the Most of the awards ended up in the same hands. Xavier
(...) Esglea, Rubau seized, "presumed to bear the control of sales of particleboard in Girona and higher pricing," according to the Guardia Civil. In the talks, Esglea not cut hair, "Girona is a territory shielded and no problem.
But Barcelona are doing absolutely outrageous," he says, referring to the practice of companies outside the exclusive club, in his view, offer prices too low. One such Dani recalls, "We will share a little cake" where the works are awarded.
Esglea and others involved insist the other companies to join or remain isolated. A charge of Dragados confesses that there is a concert between "small" companies Girona and suggests that you follow the rules.
The head of Dragados is willing to enter the rag. "It was to know if you are so kind and so nice and warm, like the rest of the world, to respect the work and not screw it up. So far I think I have controlled the world and I need you," he said.
Researchers say that "given the imminent change of Government wiretaps-a few weeks, corresponding to those involved" are contacting people close to CiU. Robert Lluís Juvinyà of Aglomerats Girona, says it has held a meeting with Ricard Font, who investigators say had held positions in Terrritorial Policy in the previous stage of CiU. Juvinyà Font implies that promised a better deal after the "problems" in his view, has caused them to exconsejero Joaquim Nadal.
"can not be that because a man is a friend of Nadal assigned all GISA road works," says Juvinyà in another conversation. "We must encourage those in here: we have to work the Girona" he concludes.
Waiter, another detainee, believed to have enough clout to get other companies "stop playing the balls" and not interfere with the awards. Can be achieved through political connections, that the maverick "do not give anything." ( El País, 24/03/2011, p. 24)
