The Supreme imputes to Chaves and Griñan by the fraud of the ERE

The Supreme Court judge Alberto Jorge Barreiro has cited the next 9 and April 14, respectively, to the former presidents of Andalusia José Antonio Griñan and Manuel Chaves to appear as charged in the case that investigates the fraud of the ERE in the autonomous community. The statements of the former presidents of the PSOE autonomic will occur after the elections of the autonomous community of Andalusia March 22. The Supreme Court decision affects the five in the volumetric cause -all of them requested appear voluntarily-, who will appear between the next 7 and April 21.

In fact, sources of the defenses of the volumetric have reminded us that voluntariness. In addition, have meant that "is not a auto of indictment against them, nor does it contain any reasoning that collect any indication of crime".

For its part, the former president of the Junta de Andalucía Manuel Chaves has pointed out that their situation has not changed, since it does not weigh against the no "formal charge" and has pointed out that he has the "clear conscience" and that he hoped that the cause is "archive". "There is no auto of formal charge against us, there is no indictment, or indication of crime, just the way it is by having to go to declare, nothing has changed at all," said the national deputy in response to journalists in the Congress. In addition, Chaves has been added that has always been "supported" by his party and has been confident that their summons to testify does not influence the elections of the autonomous community of Andalusia next March 22.

For the rest of the volumetric timetable is as follows: the first to appear will be the exconsejero José Antonio Viera, quoted in the April 7; after that the 9 appear Griñan Chaves and the 14, the day 16 has been cited also exconsejero Gaspar Zarrias andalusian. The last to appear will be the senator Mar Moreno, sources have informed the High Court.

Barreiro instructed from some weeks ago the cause in the open against the five Supreme volumetric. The Supreme Court investigates whether Chaves and Griñan spoke of how "direct or indirect" in the design of the fund, endowed with 855 million to subsidize ERE and direct aid to companies in crisis. In its resolution in which the Supreme admitted take charge of the matter that affects the high charges, the judges picked the arguments employed by the instructor of the case ERE, Mercedes Alaya, in the explanatory memorandum sent out in August to the high court to investigate the volumetric. The Supreme does not comment on the possible crimes in which they might incur.

The judge argued that the andalusian rulers devised a budgetary tool allegedly illegal, "transfers of finance", for grant aid. This mechanism, approved year to year in the Andalusian parliament in the laws of budgets, facilitated the fraud by circumventing the pre-control spending, according to the instructor. Alaya maintains that the Andalusian Government chose this procedure, and not the level of subsidies as it was, "to circumvent the controls of the intervention of the Board".