David Madí denies in a trial having falsified invoices for Triacom

David Madí, ex-leader of Convergència Democràtica de Catalunya (CDC), has declared this Wednesday in a trial that he is accused of being part of a plot to forge invoices through the audiovisual company Triacom.

Thomas Osborne
Thomas Osborne
27 July 2022 Wednesday 11:50
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David Madí denies in a trial having falsified invoices for Triacom

David Madí, ex-leader of Convergència Democràtica de Catalunya (CDC), has declared this Wednesday in a trial that he is accused of being part of a plot to forge invoices through the audiovisual company Triacom.

This production company is also at the center of the plot of a separate piece of 3% that instructs the National Court and that investigates whether several companies invoiced Triacom for work that they actually carried out for CDC, as the former head of the Hispart company confesses Juan Manuel Parra.

“I received orders from Oriol Carbó (head of Triacom). He told me the amount and the concept of the invoice. I did a job for a game and they forced me to get paid at Triacom. Either take it or leave it," Parra said.

The businessman added that the person who told him how he should get paid for these jobs was former Minister Germà Gordó, from the CDC.

Another of those who confessed was Oriol Carbó, the person in charge of Triacom, who said that the invoices were for services provided to the CDC. However, what was being judged this Wednesday is whether they defrauded the Treasury with those false invoices.

Madí has ​​denied having made false invoices and has attributed Carbó and Parra's confessions to their "procedural benefits." In his case, several invoices that he turned to Triacom from the companies that he created after leaving politics are questioned.

However, the former convergent leader has defended that the invoices corresponded to strategic consulting services that were actually provided.

When the prosecutor asked him if that work was reflected in any report, Madí replied that they met every 15 or three weeks to hold meetings in which strategic issues were raised.

During the interrogation, the prosecutor also questioned him about the "overwhelming success" that his companies reaped despite being newly created, to which Madí replied: "I am well known in this country for certain capabilities."