The secretary general of Pimec, Josep Ginestadeclared this Tuesday as being investigated before the Court of Instruction number 17 of Madrid for alleged subsidy fraud to professional associations of self-employed workers registered in the State Registry of Professional Associations of Self-Employed People (Reapta).
According to the summons consulted by Europa Press, the judge also requested that this Tuesday the president of the Association of Self-Employed Workers (ATA), Lorenzo Loveand an employee of the Generalitat.
Pimec sources have explained to Europa Press that they are “very calm and collaborating” in the judicial process. Furthermore, they have reiterated that the entity sent documentation to Uatae within the framework of a collaboration and that – verbatim – they later learned that it was altered and used to request state aid.
The Prosecutor’s Office initiated investigation proceedings in February into the self-employed organization Uatae and the Catalan employers’ association for allegedly committing “different fraudulent acts” to obtain an amount greater than that which corresponded to them.
Investigation
According to the Public Ministry, the documentation provided by Uatae to request aid certified that Pimec was registered in the register of autonomous associations of Catalonia, “when this is not true.”
Consequently, the Ministry of Labor was taken into account for the subsidy to the Pimec workforce, so the total aid to Uatae amounted to 266,123 euros, to which the Ata alleged “irregularities” in the subsidy granted to Uatae in a letter in May 2023, before the General Directorate of Self-Employed Work.
The same Pimec sources have insisted that it has collaboration agreements with Uatae “in the same way it had before with ATA.”
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