The Prosecutor's Office asks for six years in prison for the president of the Parliament, Laura Borràs, for the alleged division of contracts when she directed the Institució de les Lletres Catalanes. The public ministry has presented this Thursday its indictment against Borràs for the crimes of administrative prevarication and falsehood in a public document. In addition, she demands that she be disqualified from holding public office for the next 21 years and a fine of 144,000 euros. Finally, the prosecution does not accuse her of embezzlement, a crime for which the TSJC had also prosecuted her.
The prosecution considers that Laura Borràs improperly split 18 minor contracts worth less than 18,000 euros to benefit her friend, Isaías Herrero, with whom she had had previous professional relationships both at the University of Barcelona and in a literary studies research group. When Ella Borràs entered the ILC, she agreed to create a reference web portal that she commissioned from Herrero.
“The defendants Borràs and Herrero, acting by mutual agreement, agreed that the remuneration of those computer jobs would be done through administrative contracting, unduly dividing them into different minor contracts (…) being aware that with their way of acting they openly violated the regulations on the matter contracting”. The total of the computer services that would have been contracted amounts to 277,438.17 euros.
In the brief presented today, the prosecutor points out that Borràs and Herrero agreed that in each of the files three budgets would be provided on behalf of different suppliers, two of which were not real offers but rather comparsa budgets “to simulate that the award was made to the lowest bidder. "The defendant awarded eighteen contracts without justifying that it was the most advantageous proposal since she was fully aware that the defendant, Isaías Herrero, was hiding behind all the budgets presented," he concludes.
