The European Public Prosecutor's Office has decided to file the case against former CDC official David Madí and consultant Joan Ferran, in which they were investigated for alleged subsidy fraud linked to the distribution of European Next Generation recovery funds. The prosecutors see no evidence that Madí acted as an intermediary in the distribution of the subsidies, beyond the telephone conversation intercepted by the Civil Guard in which the former leader of Convergència comments with Ferran on the possibilities that these funds would offer for companies, civil society and NGOs.
The conversation between Madí and Ferran was intercepted during the investigation carried out by Barcelona's Investigating Court 1 on the Voloh operation, the macro-case that investigates the alleged corruption of leaders who organized 1-O and the alleged diversion of funds towards the 'procés'.
Those wiretaps were placed in the hands of the European Public Prosecutor's Office by the head of the court, Judge Joaquín Aguirre, who in his order declared the existence of "well-founded suspicions" about the alleged commission of "illicits related to political-economic corruption", in particular "to alleged diversion of public funds and money laundering, among others, and more specifically alleged subsidy fraud in which David Madí would participate, along with the other investigated".
The conversation between Madí and Ferran in October 2019, referred to a meeting that the former attended at Foment del Treball, of which he is a part, and which featured Iván Redondo, then Chief of Staff of the Government of Pedro Sanchez. In it he realized the opportunities that would be generated by the 140,000 million euros that Spain would receive in European funds: “You have to establish a channel to enter. I met with Foment, I am part of Foment, and we had a meeting... of a small committee... with Iván Redondo... this will be a black tea party... there are 140,000 million”.
"Possible avenues of investigation exhausted", the European Public Prosecutor's Office concludes that it is not possible to determine whether Madí used his contacts, in the development of his advisory activity, to obtain or improperly use these subsidies. In fact, the Civil Guard reported that "at the present time" there are no more incriminating indications and, consequently, the resolution of the European Public Prosecutor's Office, to which La Vanguardia has had access, limits Madí's actions to the professional field. and as an advisor to the consulting firm RSM, in which he is also one of the partners, Joan Ferrán.
