Mari Carmen García Fuster, who was secretary of the municipal group of the PP of Valencia during the governments of Rita Barberá, assured the judge that it was common for individuals to bring her envelopes with different donations, and that on one occasion, in October 2010, a woman brought him 100,000 euros.
García Fuster, who testified this Monday in the trial for the part of the Imelsa case regarding the alleged 'box B' of the PP of Valencia to pay for two electoral campaigns, has also admitted that the party managed two bank accounts.
One was with the subsidies received from the Consistory and another where the councilors and advisors paid what was known in internal jargon as the 'revolutionary tax', about 60 euros per month, which subsequently fed the accounts of the provincial PP.
"The party managers have denied knowing these accounts but it is false. If they called me to ask for income! How could they not know about that account?" he exclaimed in his statement. "We kept part of those funds to face elections, but the main amount went to the provincial PP. Then we sent them invoices and they didn't want to know anything.
This Monday the eighth session of the trial of piece A of the Imelsa case was held in the Second Section, on the alleged 'box b' of the PP of Valencia to pay for the 2007 and 2011 electoral campaigns, in which the defendants are: former vice mayor Alfonso Grau, García Fuster herself and the heads of two municipal foundations, Juan Eduardo Santón and José Salinas.
García Fuster's lawyer and brother-in-law of the late Rita Barberá, José Corbín, has described this contribution of 100,000 euros as a "star donation" and has asked his client if he could reveal the name of the woman who gave it, to which García Fuster has responded that "it was Conchita García Lliberós."
"People were afraid, Zapatero was already in the national government," added the former secretary of the local PP to justify these donations, although she has not been able to determine the reason why they were not channeled through the party, but rather through the municipal group. "Maybe it's because we were more central," she noted.
Asked about the figure of the PP "collector", a figure that she herself introduced in her statement in the investigation phase, although without giving him a name and surname, this Monday she assured that "it was an invention" to "protect all those donors." anonymous". "If I started giving names, they would all have been investigated and it would have been tremendously unfair," she justified.
She kept these donations herself in a safe in her party office and deposited them into the party's accounts "prudently."
Regarding the origin of the cash that the party received, García Fuster has indicated that she is sure that it had a "legal" origin: "I don't know," she pointed out, "but I suppose that the money was contributed at meetings of friends."
Asked about paying an invoice to one of the marketing supply companies for the electoral campaign, she admitted that she paid in cash, but "it was because the owner had already closed the company" and "he asked for it that way. You can say mass, but it was like that."
This Monday, the former vice mayor and 'right-hand man' of Rita Barberá for several terms, Alfonso Grau, also declared, who has denied any type of responsibility in the contracts signed with two communication companies (Laterne and Trasgos) in the 2007 campaigns. and 2011.
"I did not order anything, I only transmitted the agreements of the campaign committee. Laterne had already led the 2003 campaign. They told me to go to them," according to Grau.
When asked by the prosecutor, the former vice mayor indicated that he was unaware both that the local PP had a specific allocation of funds for each campaign and the origin of the funds with which the PP of Valencia paid its electoral expenses.
