Second emergency contract from the Consell de Carlos Mazón to businessmen of the ‘Gürtel’ plot. The Minister of Infrastructure, Vicente Martínez Mus, has awarded 4.2 million euros to the Alicante construction company CHM Obras e Infarestructuras SA, whose president, the businessman Francisco Javier Martínez Berna, was sentenced in the framework of the ‘Gürtel case’ to one year and nine months in prison for two electoral crimes related to the regional and municipal elections of 2007 and for one crime of document falsification. His brother José Martínez Berna, director of the construction company, was also sentenced to the same penalty, following a conformity agreement signed in 2018 between both businessmen and the Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office.
These are builders with a long history who, during the time of the ‘Gürtel’ plot, ended up mired in the B financing of the Valencian PP led by Francisco Camps. The group of businessmen who confessed the facts before the National Court included, in addition to the Martínez Berna brothers, Enrique Ortiz (convicted in separate parts of the ‘Brugal case’) and Vicente Cotino (convicted in the ‘Erial case’ after confessing to the facts. ). The gang of confessed financiers of the PP in ‘Gürtel’ assumed fines for a global value of about two million euros to avoid a sentence of more than two years in prison, which would have meant admission to a penitentiary center. In short, a figure much lower than the four million euros fine that Vicente Cotino agreed to pay, sentenced for the corrupt plot led by former president Eduardo Zaplana to three years and five months in prison as the author of the crimes of bribery, falsehood and money laundering.
Source: www.eldiario.es
