Manual for corrupting a mayor: « I’ve been making gifts for 30 years » | Spain

Sitting three magistrates from the National Court, David Marjaliza passes the leaves of a folder. The businessman seeks among his roles more details of the relationship he woven with responsible for different Madrid municipalities. At this time on Wednesday, he has already declaring Wednesday before the Court that prosecuted for more than three hours one of the multiple lines of research of the Punic case And, as he insists, he « was in charge of opening the doors » of the consistories so that the Cofely Energy Company won public contracts. Awards that were rigged in exchange for the payment of cash or gifts, according to the Anti -Corruption Prosecutor’s Office. « Personally, Carlos Alberto Estrada (Mayor of Moral de Enmedio) asks me for 30,000 euros to award a contest. I give them and awarded them, » recalls the businessman during the interrogation.

The National Court has host the oral view on the summary of the Punic case focused on the alleged love of public contracts in favor of The Cofely company. Of the 36 people who sit on the bench, 15 have admitted the irregularities: among them, Marjaliza himself, those responsible for the energy company and three former mayors (Gonzalo Cubasex -regidor of Torrejón de Velasco by the PP; José María Fraile, who was the highest authority in Parla for the PSOE; and Antonio Sánchez, former mayor of Serranillos del Valle under the acronym of the UDMA localist party).

Six other former PPs are among the defendants, although they have denied the imputations: José Carlos Boza, from Valdemoro; Agustín Juárez, from Collado Villalba; Daniel Ortiz, from Móstoles; Carlos Alberto Estrada, from Moraleja de Enmedio; Mario Utrilla, from Seville the New; and José García Lobato, from Almendralejo (Badajoz). However, Marjaliza has left several of them at the foot of the horses.

To questions from the Prosecutor’s Office, the businessman has reviewed how he facilitated the plot to enter the different administrations. Marjaliza had dedicated himself to the construction sector for many years – which allowed him to weave an important network of contacts by the Community of Madrid, including former councilor Francisco Granados, number two of the regional PP. But, when the 2007 crisis exploded, according to Anticorruption, he reoriented his activity to « obtain licenses and public concessions in those municipalities in which he had already fondabilized » his relationship « with municipal authorities and technicians. » Precisely, Cofely hired him to exercise that work. « He was a man who had access to many municipalities. Reaching a town hall calling the door was very complicated, » said Pedro García, one of those responsible for the Commercial Department of Cofely, during his statement in the trial.

« Personally, Carlos Alberto Estrada asks me for 30,000 euros to award a contest. I give them and awarded the contest, » Marjalizes against the former popular mayor, recalling a moral award from Enmedio (5,500 inhabitants). On Parla (134,000 inhabitants), the following has recalled: « I contacted Antonio Borrego, who was the chief of the mayor’s cabinet. We saw ourselves. Antonio asked me between 600,000 and 700,000 euros (bite). I told him it was a lot. »

« He said it was to distribute with the mayor? » « The prosecutor asked. »

« He said it was for the campaign, for a newspaper, because they were in New York … I don’t know the mayor, » Marjaliza answered.

« But you sensed that a part was also going to be for the mayor? »

« If you ask me in a bar bar, I would say yes. » If you ask me in a judicial headquarters, I say no, because I don’t want to put anyone in a mess with my assumptions.

However, the Prosecutor’s Office argues that these 500,000 euros were distributed between Borrego, already deceased, and former mayor José María Fraile (PSOE), who were responsible for pressing municipal technicians to include Cofely’s demands in the specifications of the contest. The tender thus became a « custom suit. » Fraile himself confessed at the beginning of the trial After reaching an agreement with anti -corruption. « I was giving little money to Poquito, as the procedure was advancing, » Marjaliza said: « The payments were regularly made in my office. Other times we were going to eat. And the payments were always Antonio. »

When focusing on Valdemoro (83,000 inhabitants), the businessman’s testimony has become a true manual of how Weave an influences for years. There, where Granados was mayor, Marjaliza became a councilor at the end of the last century. Then, he did business: « I knew the entire City Council. There I did many homes as a promoter. I knew the people of the PP, of the PSOE, of IU. I have financed campaigns of the three games. I have financed everything they have asked me in Valdemoro. Valdemoro is my municipality. »

« I paid the concert of Julio Iglesias. I paid the day of the octopus for the entire municipality. I paid the bells of the City Council. I paid to the Local Police, I gave the refrigerator, the microwave, bicycles to do sports … the race against cancer. Financing football teams. Everything was my municipality, where I have worked most and the one that later reversed, » said Marjaliza:  » sweep ”.

The businessman has affirmed that these relationships served him for years to take less to give him licenses. And then, to open the city gates to Cofely. In this regard, he said that the payment of a bite of 300,000 euros was placed on the table: « Alfredo Ovejero, who was the chief of cabinet of Mayor José Carlos Boza, told me several times that there was a dispute between the mayor and Granados to collect a commission for that contract. » « They always asked me for things, » he added. « I’ve been making gifts for 30 years, » he said, before remembering how he bought in Paris Louis Vuitton brand bags for women of Ovejero and Boza. Likewise, as he said, he paid for the expenses of trips to Palma de Mallorca and a boat journey.

Marjaliza has also been very explicit when referring to the landing of the plot in Móstoles (214,000 inhabitants). As he said, to enter that municipality, he had Mario Utrilla (PP), who was mayor in Seville the New (9,000 inhabitants) and brother of Alejandro Utrilla, mayor of the PP in Móstoles. « He told me that his brother was councilor. Mario asked us 240,000 euros, » he stressed. Who was that money for? « I don’t know if he was going to stay, the mayor or his brother, » said the businessman, before detailing how he delivered 6,000 euros in hand to Mario Utrilla because he pressed them a lot.

« In Torrejón de Velasco, I did not know any official, or any technician. I knew Gonzalo (Cubas, the mayor) because he is my brother -in -law; already Raúl (Quiroga, councilor of the PP) because he was my friend, » Marjaliza recalled. « Did they ask for something? » The prosecutor said then. « No, but Cofely, yes. » That? « Hats for the entire town, the soccer score had it broken … Subsequently, the arrangement of the theater cover … ». Marjaliza’s influence was broader: « In Serranillos del Valle, they introduced me to the mayor and I was related to him. I proposed Cofely.