The general secretary of Pimec, Joseph Ginestadeclared this Tuesday as the subject of an investigation before the Court of Instruction number 17 of Madrid for alleged subsidy fraud to professional associations of self-employed workers registered in the National Register of professional associations of self-employed workers (Reapta).
According to the summons consulted by Europa Press, the judge also requested that this Tuesday the president of the Association of Independent Workers (ATA), Lorenzo Loveand an employee of the Generalitat.
Pimec sources told Europa Press that they were “very calm and collaborative” in the legal process. Furthermore, they reiterated that the entity had sent documents to Uatae as part of a collaboration and that – verbatim – they later learned that these had been modified and used to request state aid .
In February, the public prosecutor’s office opened an investigation procedure against the self-employed organization Uatae and the Catalan employers’ association for having committed “various fraudulent acts” to obtain a sum greater than that which corresponded to them.
Investigation
According to the public prosecutor, the documentation provided by Uatae to request the aid certifies that Pimec was registered in the register of autonomous associations of Catalonia, “while this is not true”.
Therefore, the Ministry of Labor was taken into account for the Pimec labor subsidy, the total aid to Uatae therefore amounts to 266,123 euros, to which Ata alleged “irregularities” in the subsidy granted to Uatae in a letter dated May 2023, before the General Directorate of Autonomy. -Salaried work.
The same Pimec sources insisted that it had collaboration agreements with Uatae “in the same way as it previously did with ATA.”
