The UGT of Andalusia quickly exceeded the amount of public funds it received from the regional government, under the power of its “brother” party, the PSOE (previously dual membership was compulsory). His former commanders wanted to think big. Between 2009 and 2013, they received more than 100 million euros from the regional administration to provide training. A judgment from the third section of the Seville Provincial Court, notified to the parties this Wednesday, concludes that five former union leaders “knowingly and fraudulently” diverted up to 40.62 million euros of public funds intended for workers to those who “must defend.” Andalusian workers and society in general are the main victims of the various mechanisms designed by the former union leadership to “benefit from public subsidies” by appealing to trusted suppliers for their own benefit. According to the description given in the sentence which provides for prison sentences and fines of one million dollars, the UGT-A has set up a type of accounting parallel to official accounting which has been perfected from year to year and which has constituted a means of irregular financing of the union’s activities He even created a computer manual to record fictitious and duplicate invoices, the “pots” or balances created with the discounts applied by his suppliers and the artificial rental of classrooms. The public money distributed by the Junta de Andalucía was the oil that lubricated the fraudulent machinery of the union as a social agent. As well as the aid to companies in crisis in the case of the ERE, which resulted in convictions for 19 former high-ranking officials partially annulled by the Constitutional Court after a final judgment of the Court of Seville. Or just like the uncontrolled investments of the public venture capital company Invercaria. All are branches that emerge from the same tree of institutional corruption in an era marked by excesses and irregularities that are the subject of investigations and sanctions by the Andalusian justice system. The breeder of the ERE and former leader of the food branch of the UGT, Juan Lanzas, who He moved through the corridors of the Council as in his house, he was the link that connects the ERE case to the aid to training. After leaving the union, he created two training companies, which in turn had important business relationships with the UGT-A, according to the official and protected witness in the Teodoro Montes case. The advisor to the Presidency, Antonio Sanz, expressed yesterday his “respect” for the decision of the Provincial Court of Seville which condemns the former leadership of the union. He offers “one more photo of the past era of PSOE governments -A”, very far from what the PP executive is proposing today, he said. The current leadership of the PSOE has also shown its respect for this judicial decision, while Vox demanded that the president of the Advice, Juanma Moreno, cuts the “financing” of a “mafia” union like the UGT-A which, it claims, “stole” from the Andalusians.
