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 financing in B of the Valencian PP. It is a provisional count, since not all of the five hundred emergency contracts of the Consell have yet been published.
The Department of Infrastructure headed by Vicente Martínez Mus has published this Friday on the State Contracting Platform the emergency contracts for the repair of autonomously owned bridges and roads. In this new batch of emergency contracts, up to 19.6 million euros have been awarded by hand to three companies linked to the financing of ‘box B’ of the Valencian PP.
This is CHM Obras e Infraestructuras SA, which has obtained a contract worth 11.5 million euros (VAT included) for the repair of the road and the viaduct over the Barranco del Poyo as it passes through Alaquàs, Aldaia and Torrent, and of Becsa, awarded the rehabilitation of bridges on the CV-50 as it passes through Cheste for 8.1 million.
In addition, the Provincial Council of Valencia, chaired by the popular Vicente Mompó, has awarded a total of 8.8 million euros for works on provincially owned roads 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, businessman Francisco Javier Martínez Berna, was sentenced in the framework of the ‘Gürtel case’ to one year and nine months in prison for two electoral crimes related to the regional and municipal elections of 2007 and for one crime of document falsification. His brother José Martínez Berna, director of the construction company, was also sentenced to the same penalty, following a conformity agreement signed in 2018 between both 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 by this newspaper.
For his part, the Castellón businessman Gabriel Alberto Batalla Reigada, a shareholder of the construction company, was sentenced to the same sentence as the Martínez Berna after an agreement in accordance with the Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office to confess the facts in the piece of the Gürtel case of illegal financing. of the Valencian PP. Becsa SA, which has a hydraulic infrastructure department, also came to light in the ‘Fabra 2 case’.
The Department of Agriculture, Water, Livestock and Fisheries, headed by Miguel Barrachina from 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 Entity for Wastewater Sanitation (EPSAR) awarded 34.2 million euros to several of these construction companies for the repair of treatment plants and collectors damaged by the DANA on October 29.
On the other hand, Pavasal injected a total of 240,000 euros into ‘box B’ of the PP of Valencia for Rita Barberá’s electoral campaign in the 2007 municipal elections, as proven by the ruling in separate piece A of the ‘Taula case’. , 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 ruling.
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 has been used “to speed up administrative procedures as much as possible and act immediately on the ground.”
“We are going to continue at this pace in the reconstruction work to try to return to normality as soon as possible,” said the new spokesperson for Carlos Mazón’s Executive.
On the other hand, the Consell awarded an emergency contract to STV Gestión SL, the company where Mazón’s current chief of staff, the regional secretary José Manuel Cuenca, worked as director of Institutional Relations. EPSAR has also awarded a contract of 3.2 million euros to several shareholders of STV Gestión SL.
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