The Anticorruption Office has begun to take a statement from responsible for
energy between 2007 and 2010, with the PSOE government, in an investigation to
clarify whether he forgave the electrical a debt of between 2,500 and 3,500
million euros. The Attorney General's Office has called to testify at a secret
research to at least three lawyers of the State and a former director general of
Energy, according to sources familiar with the investigation. The key is to know
that we never complained to the electrical return that the overcharges by the
costs of the transition to competition (CTC) despite the fact that a report of
the Bar of the State of March 2008 so bears out. Power companies have always
denied payments above what marked the law.
Although the complaint seemed to sleep in a drawer, some two months ago began
arriving citations to responsible for the era. According to sources familiar
with the investigation, a month ago stated as witnesses Joaquin Bardají Sources,
state attorney general between 2004 and 2012; Fernando Calancha, exabogado of
the State in the secretariat of State for Energy, former head of cabinet of the
secretary general for Energy and now in PWC; José Ramón Mourenza, current chief
lawyer of the State of the Ministry of Industry, and the former director general
of Energy Policy Jorge Sanz. They played before the prosecutor Luis Rodríguez
del Sol, the same case Bankia, who has not wanted to comment on the news.
Ignasi Nieto, secretary general of energy between september 2006 and April 2008
and currently at the Inter-american Development Bank in Washington, he explained
that commissioned the report to the bar of the State prior to ordering the
return. "Had been slowed down and had been overcharged". Nieto does not remember
the exact calculation of how much they believed that consumers had paid unduly,
but asserts that "it was a relevant amount significantly around 3,000 million".
Other calculations move the figure between 2,500 and 3,500 million, depending on
what is considered to restore.
On March 13, 2008, four days after the general elections, entered into industry
the reply, signed by the then state attorney general (head of the body), Joaquin
Bardají sources. His conclusion was that, although not expressly referred to in
the law a final settlement, "the principles of law that prohibit unjust
enrichment and the collection of the abuse that they can be allowed to the
liquidation for each company". The report does not figure the amount to be
refunded.
