The National Court has agreed to indict businessman and former Convergència Democràtica de Catalunya (CDC) President David Madí as part of ongoing investigations into alleged unlawful contracting by the Generalitat de Catalunya of the company Ambulancias Egara, a derivative of the so-called “3% case “.
So says a March 6 decision by Europa Press of the investigating magistrate Santiago Pedraz, who also includes seven other people who are also given investigative status in the case. This is the owner of the company Ambulancias Egara, Óscar Simón; José Ramón and Manuel Castarlenas from the consulting firm RCM; and businessmen María José Cordovilla, Juan Alberto Arqués, Fermí Ferrán and Alejandro García-Gascón.
The court order provides that the magistrate will take testimony from all, although before setting a date he will ask them to appoint an attorney to represent them “for the sake of the rights of the defence”. He points out that once the lawyer is appointed, he forwards everything that has been done in the case to him.
Pedraz’s decision responds to the request of the Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office, which took an interest in these allegations, based on the police report working on the case and on the previously agreed entries and records at the plumbing company’s headquarters.
The judge authorized the entry and search on March 2 at the headquarters of Ambulancias Egara in Terrassa (Barcelona), at the premises of a temporary association of companies (UTE) in Lleida and at a consulting firm in Barcelona to find documents related to these alleged irregular Ambulance service assignments while in charge of government CDC.
The investigations are focused on finding evidence of the award of three lots of the Catalan plumbing competition in 2015 to a joint venture involving Ambulancias Egara.
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Coincidentally, Madí was sentenced to 14 months in prison and a fine of 219,750 euros back in October 2022 as part of the “Triacom case” by the Criminal Court 23 of Barcelona, after the trial of him and seven other defendants for conspiracy to false bills in 2011, at which he was involved as a necessary collaborator to defraud the Treasury Department.
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