The PP wants to take advantage of the constitution of the instrumental public sector investigation commission – which they have approved in this period of sessions together with their Vox partners – to look for possible Valencian ramifications of what they yesterday described as the “Koldo-Ábalos-Puig case.” ”. The commission’s work schedule has not yet been proposed or ratified (nor have those appearing) so the new parliamentary majority has more flexibility to direct the investigation towards one or other companies in the vast public panorama.

The PP ombudsman in Les Corts, Miguel Barrachina, yesterday defended the need to “know everything: who was behind those ghost companies and to know the entire award process in the Puig stage.” To do this, the Popular Party and Vox will take advantage of the commission they approved a few days ago that, in principle, had other objectives in mind. “From the PP we are committed to the truth in the hiring of masks and that is why we want to know what happened with the ghost companies and the health failures of the Puig Government.”

Along these lines, Barrachina recalled that the PP has already made requests for documentation and has filed a claim with the Anti-Fraud Agency. But, he is not going to stop there in his attempt to wear down the opposition and coddle his main political rival.

The PP wants to take advantage of the fact that Ferrocarrils de la Generalitat Valenciana is a public sector company to enhance FGV’s contracts with the company Levantina de Ingeniería y Comunicación SL. The PP spokesperson in Les Corts stressed that the owner of this firm “was with Koldo in a meeting and the following week he was awarded some FGV works.” A modus operandi that the popular leader assures was repeated in a subsequent award after other meetings with the supposed achiever.

Barrachina highlighted that there are about “thirty different contracts awarded to the plot by the Puig government with its then managers and now promoted Rebeca Torró and Arcadi España.”

In his attempt to sow doubts, the PP spokesperson indicated that his party wants to know “if there were dormant companies that began their activity to make money and, later, close the activity again.”

For his part, the PSPV ombudsman, José Muñoz, asked for “coherence from the PP” and highlighted that his party is willing to investigate “everything that is necessary”, while the PP only wants to do so in those autonomies that interest it. . “We want the management of the pandemic to be investigated in all the autonomous communities, while the PP votes against the investigation commission in the Congress of Deputies,” highlighted Muñoz.

The still Secretary of Organization of the Valencian Socialists wanted to qualify some of the information and explained that “talking about ghost companies is not telling the truth.” Muñoz pointed out that it is very common to purchase companies that already exist (since establishing them is very slow, due to the procedures) to undertake other business niches in a certain economic context. “What is done in the pandemic is to carry out this type of legal operations in extraordinary situations,” indicated the PSPV leader who predicted: “it will end in nothing, but they will stain the work of the Generalitat Valenciana during the pandemic.”

Regarding the controversy, the Consell spokesperson, Ruth Merino, assured yesterday that the Generalitat will respond to the request made by the PP group in Les Corts and will provide all the contracts that the Botànic government signed during the pandemic to purchase medical supplies. Merino admitted at a press conference that “the pandemic was a complicated time, but there are things that are not acceptable and public money cannot be used to contract with firms that were not trustworthy.” The spokesperson did not confirm the existence of irregularities but she made clear the Valencian executive’s willingness to clarify the matter: “We will go to the end,” she concluded.