The judge has cited the former director of the Meteorological Service of Catalonia (Meteocat) Oriol Puig as being investigated for allegedly rigging a contract in favor of the audiovisual company Triacom, as requested by the Anti-Corruption Prosecutor's Office. This is stated in the brief delivered to the judge of the National High Court Santiago Pedraz in one of the pieces opened by the 3% case and to which La Vanguardia has had access.
Together with Puig, brother of the former Minister of the Interior, the Prosecutor's Office also demands that the head of Triacom, Oriol Carbó, and the businessman Juan Manuel Parra be cited as being investigated. They are scheduled for July 5 and 7.
The letter explains that according to the documentation obtained from Meteocat, there was a fraudulent bidding process and a Triacom charge of 70,800 euros in February 2016 "despite the absence of any work or service to justify it."
Regarding Parra, Anticorrupción explains that his company Hispart SA provided services to CDC consisting of designing and implementing the communication campaign for said political party corresponding to the electoral campaign of the 2010 elections, generating a debt of approximately 750,000 euros.
It is stated in the case how the investigated Germà Gordó “addressed the also investigated Oriol Carbó and instructed him to pay Parra the debt that Convergència Democràtica de Catalunya had contracted with him, with Hispart, specialized in audiovisual production, for the organization and production of said electoral campaign”, collects the letter.
The total amount paid by Triacom Audiovisual to Hispart on behalf of and for the benefit of CDC amounted, according to the Prosecutor's Office, to approximately 750,000 euros. “To do this, Carbó and Parra agreed to completely simulate documents intended expressly and directly for economic activity,” he points out.
Anti-corruption is based on a conversation whose recording Parra himself contributed to the procedure and which reveals that this investigator "was aware of the fictitious nature of the invoices that he issued against Triacom".
“That fictitious character was, as has been said, of an absolute character. In other words, not only was the description of the concept lacking in reality, but some documents were originated that included a company that was completely unrelated to the underlying reality of the intended payments”, he adds.
The Prosecutor's Office concludes that several Parra companies received various amounts from Triacom. “The payments made to Parra, and its companies, by Triacom are part of an illegal financing network of CDC through false invoicing, and it should be investigated whether, in addition to these three companies (Audio Visuales Exit, S L, Hispart, S L and Estereo Rent), Juan Manuel Parra received other amounts from Triacom”, he concludes.
La Vanguardia has already published the latest report from the Mossos d'Esquadra and the Civil Guard which pointed out that one of the companies investigated within the so-called 3% case, Triacom Audiovisual, could have received a rigged contract from the Servei Meteorològic de Catalunya (SMC) by order of the then director Oriol Puig.
The investigators have two key witnesses who place the brother of the former Minister of the Interior, Felip Puig (CDC), as the person who ordered that the 60,000-euro contract to make the service's mobile phone application end up in the hands of Triacom.
