The autonomous government of Carlos Mazón has already awarded a total of 61.9 million euros in emergency contracts to construction companies linked to the funding in B of the Valencian PP. This is a provisional count, since all of the Consell’s five hundred emergency contracts have not yet been published.
The Department of Infrastructure led by Vicente Martínez Mus published this Friday on the State Procurement Platform the emergency contracts for the repair of bridges and roads of autonomous property. In this new batch of emergency contracts, up to 19.6 million euros were manually awarded to three companies linked to the financing of “box B” of the Valencian PP.
This is CHM Obras e Infraestructuras SA, which was awarded a contract worth 11.5 million euros (VAT included) for the rehabilitation of the road and the Barranco del Poyo viaduct crossing Alaquàs, Aldaia and Torrent, and Becsa, awarded the rehabilitation of the bridges on the CV-50 that crosses Cheste for 8.1 million.
In addition, the Provincial Delegation of Valencia, chaired by the popular Vicente Mompó, allocated a total of 8.8 million euros for provincial road works to construction companies linked to financing in B of the PP.
In this case, it is Pavasal (3.2 million euros); Rover Alcisa (3.2 million); Becsa (1.5 million) and CHM Obras e Infraestructuras (890,000 euros), according to the decree signed by Vicente Mompó.
The president of CHM Obras e Infraestructuras SA, the businessman Francisco Javier Martínez Berna, was sentenced in the context of the “Gürtel affair” to one year and nine months in prison for two electoral offenses linked to the regional elections and municipal elections of 2007 and for an offense of falsification of documents. His brother José Martínez Berna, director of the construction company, was also sentenced to the same sentence, following a compliance agreement signed in 2018 between the two businessmen and the anti-corruption prosecutor’s office.
The public company Ferrocarrils de la Generalitat Valenciana (FGV), also dependent on the Martínez Mus ministry, awarded an emergency contract to CHM Obras e Infraestructuras SA worth 4.2 million euros, as reported this newspaper.
For his part, the Castellón businessman Gabriel Alberto Batalla Reigada, shareholder of the construction company, was sentenced to the same sentence as Martínez Berna after an agreement in agreement with the anti-corruption prosecutor’s office to confess the facts in the context of the trial. Gürtel case of illegal financing of the Valencian PP. Becsa SA, which has a hydraulic infrastructure department, was also highlighted in the “Fabra 2 case”.
The Ministry of Agriculture, Water, Livestock and Fisheries, headed by Miguel Barrachina de Castellón, awarded Becsa SA another emergency contract worth 3.9 million euros for the repair of the Buseo dam, seriously damaged by DANA.
The Public Wastewater Sanitation Establishment (EPSAR) awarded 34.2 million euros to several of these construction companies for the repair of wastewater treatment plants and collectors damaged by DANA on October 29.
On the other hand, Pavasal injected a total of 240,000 euros into the “fund B” of the PP of Valencia for the electoral campaign of Rita Barberá in the municipal elections of 2007, as proven by the judgment of separate part A of the “case Taula.” issued on July 30 by the second section of the Provincial Court of Valencia. For its part, the Rover Alcisa Group paid 60,000 euros to the popular Valencians, as indicated in the same judgment.
Half a thousand emergency contracts
The vice president of the Consell, Susana Camarero, explained this week that more than half a thousand emergency contracts have been put out to tender. Camarero explained that this system was used “to speed up administrative procedures as much as possible and take immediate action on the ground.”
“We will continue at this pace in the reconstruction work to try to return to normal as quickly as possible,” declared the new spokesperson for the Executive Carlos Mazón.
On the other hand, the Consell awarded an emergency contract to STV Gestión SL, the company where Mazón’s current chief of staff, regional secretary José Manuel Cuenca, worked as director of institutional relations. EPSAR also awarded a contract worth 3.2 million euros to several shareholders of STV Gestión SL.
