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The judge investigating the fraud Castellon employers the complexity of the case

The Court of First Instance and Instruction 1 of Nules said the complexity of the case filed against the heads of the Confederation of Employers of Castellón (CEC) for alleged irregularities in the management of subsidies for training schemes granted to organizations business.

The judge considers the request of the prosecutor, declares the complex nature of the investigation of this case that continues from July 2015 against several individuals and legal entities for an alleged crime against the Treasury in the form of subsidy fraud and other crime continued of forgery, and extends the deadline to investigate six to eighteen months.

The judge considers that "the vast amount of investigation" and the need to submit the analysis of the experts the extensive documentation gathered justifies the declaration of complexity of this procedure in which, moreover, are still pending practiced investigative "essential" to complete the instruction.

In addition to the number of defendants, by the abundant documents seized and the complexity of the outstanding expert, the delay in the proceedings is compounded by the precariousness of human and material he works with the court, whose demands are not they have yet been addressed by the Ministry of Justice, competent administration, although were backed Unit for Causes of Corruption (UACC) of the General Council of the Judiciary (CGPJ) and the Government Division of the High Court Justice of Valencia (TSJCV).

In this regard, the judge said in its resolution that "this lack of human and material resources affects so necessary and vital in delaying the processing of this case suffers and justify extending the period of instruction." Such a delay adds, "it is not due to laziness or inactivity of the judicial authorities" since from the "competent body has been treated to impose the maximum possible speed".

The head of the Court of First Instance and Instruction No. 1 of Nules, James Pin, requested last September the support of the UACC. In November, after studying your application, the Standing Committee of the CGPJ agreed to a proposal from the Support Unit Causes of Corruption contact the Directorate of Justice of the Generalitat Valenciana to adopt various measures to strengthen the Court.

The governing body of judges asked the Valencian Government to adscribiera the court manager or a procedural tramitador, preferably with experience in developing its work in the courts, and that will give the court a video recording system, a program computer transcription of statements and a document scanning machine with sufficient capacity to digitize large causes.

None of the requests made by the instructor to expedite the handling of the case has been heard except the continuity of a staff that was already reinforced the court.

The initial research was recently extended after filing a new complaint by the Servef in relation to training courses offered by the Institute of Development and Business Training Castellón (subsidiary CEC) under plan funds deformation.

In that report the complaint Servef the alleged perception of more 120,000 euros without justification.

As a result of the above additional complaint they again declared, as investigated, on February 26, Secretary of the CEC, Rafael Montero, and responsible for training, Mirror.

On April 25 it declared as investigated the territorial delegate of the CEC in the Vall will d'Uixó.

That same day have been summoned as witnesses, the accounting of one of the companies investigated and two technicians of Finance.

On May 20 they will appear, as well as witnesses, the assistant director of Servef, the section chief Servef training plans and the auditor of the accounts of the CEC for this training.


On May 23 the investigating judge interrogated and investigated responsible for one of the academies.