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The PP is trying to spread the socialist smear in the “Azud case” involving a senator who has not been charged

The PP is trying to spread the socialist smear in

The PP has made a step forward in its attempts to extract political profit from corruption in a case in which it is chiefly implicated, although it also splatters the PSOE. PP Senate spokesman Javier Maroto has asked Upper House President Ander Gil to urge Socialist Senator José Asensi to amend his assets and activities statement amid “suspicions” that he may have hidden income and/ or benefits from a company.

The firm is one of those investigated in the Azud case, which investigates the commissions paid by Valencian businessmen to political leaders, with the focus on the Valencia City Council at the time when Rita Barberá (PP) was in power. However, in his petition, Maroto converts the main cause of the case, namely the corruption of the PP, in the case of “alleged illegal funding of the PSOE of the Valencian Community”, when not even the judge took into account crime among those identified nor The Socialist Senator José Asensi is part of the list of more than fifty defendants, most of whom are business people.

The PP narrows the case down to the involvement of Valencian socialists in the alleged diversion of bills for electoral expenses in 2007 and 2008, which was pointed out by the Civil Guard’s Central Operative Unit (UCO) in one of the seven separate parts of the case. The former manager of the Valencian Socialists himself admitted before the judge that a construction company had financed these election costs, but this act was not a criminal offense in 2007 and therefore cannot be prosecuted.

In any case, the fact is that Azud has involved two socialists, the former government sub-delegate Rafael Rubio and the former chief financial officer of the Valencian socialists, Pepe Cataluña, although neither of them is already a member of the PSÖ. In the case of Rubio, allegedly accused of remaining silent about the events under investigation when he was the leader of the municipal opposition in the Valencia City Council. Rubio was arrested last May in the same operation that arrested former Valencia deputy mayor Alfonso Grau (PP). Two years earlier, but in the same context as the Azud case, José María Corbín, lawyer and brother-in-law of the former mayor of Valencia, Rita Barberá, was arrested.

Javier Maroto justified his request “in the interest of the principles of integrity, transparency, diligence, honesty, responsibility and respect” and after the newspaper El Mundo published that according to the Treasury Department, a company owned by the senator, Jaime Febrer, was being used as a mailbox company. Maroto is demanding that his 2019 declaration of operations be reviewed, knowing full well that Asensi sold the company in 2005.

José Asensi himself, Senator from Alicante, on Tuesday denied the information, assuring that the alleged criminal acts cited took place after his involvement with this company and sent several documents to confirm that he “never” any invoice” issued or received. any amount”.

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