The Supreme opens an investigation against Chaves and Griñan by the ERE

The Supreme Court will investigate the involvement in the fraud of the ERE of the andalusian presidents Manuel Chaves and José Antonio Griñan. The high court has decided to open case against the former officers of the Board after the prosecution urged last week to investigate the intervention "direct or indirect" of Chaves and Griñan in the design of the fund of the ERE.

The instructor of the cause will be Alberto Jorge Barreiro. In his car, which has been Rapporteur Miguel Colmenero, the judges of the Supreme show that at the moment is solely the responsibility of the trial chamber check if there are facts that valuation in a "very tentative" could be criminal and if there is evidence "consistent or, to put it another way, principles of evidence" of the involvement of the people beakers.

The high court recalls a auto of October 2013 in which it is fixed that "sufficient reasonable possibility that the facts that describes the reasoned presentation" that have happened to the Supreme appropriate to the opening of an investigation to determine whether or not there has been crime. The judges of the Criminal Division consider that, in the explanatory memorandum sent to the Supreme by the investigating judge of the case of the ERE, Mercedes Alaya, there are indications that "in the field of the Junta de Andalucia, in particular from the employment counselling, and with the purpose to proceed to the payment of grants to companies, labor partner aid and direct aid workers was organized a system that took effect from the year 2000, during a period of time of approximately 12 years that allowed access to substantial amounts of money amounting to 855 million euros to make those payments without effective be fastened to the procedure and own controls of the subsidies, in spite of That was the legal nature of aid".

"It is therefore essential to continue the research on the facts and the participation in the same" of Chaves, Griñan, Viera, Zarrias and Moreno, said the auto. The Criminal Division has taken the approach of the Public Prosecutor, who last week issued a report that he believed that the judicial investigation already should be divided into three separate parts and that the high court should assume you only research on the five national volumetric. Research on the autonomic volumetric (the exconsejeros Carmen Martinez Aguayo, Manuel Recio, Antonio Avila and Francisco Vallejo) will remain, predictably, in the hands of the Superior Court of Justice of Andalusia, while that Alaya will continue instructing the part related to the 229 intruders (people benefited from outside companies), entrepreneurs and former senior officials of the Board charged since 2011.