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Along with Rafael Delgado, who was Deputy Minister of Economy with Villanueva and Secretary General of the same Ministry ), the complaint goes against other former senior officials such as Alberto Esgueva and managers of the companies that built the parks, such as four Iberdrola executives, the three brothers who own the construction company Collosa, one of the largest in the community, and Carlos Galdón, among others. In total, this medium stands out, there are 21 people accused of lying, money laundering, fiscal crime and influence peddling. The discovered commissions would be around 80 million euros.
Along with Rafael Delgado, who was Deputy Minister of Economy with Villanueva and Secretary General of the same Ministry ), the complaint goes against other former senior officials such as Alberto Esgueva and managers of the companies that built the parks, such as four Iberdrola executives, the three brothers who own the construction company Collosa, one of the largest in the community, and Carlos Galdón, among others. In total, this medium stands out, there are 21 people accused of lying, money laundering, fiscal crime and influence peddling. The discovered commissions would be around 80 million euros.
The National Prosecutor's Office opens a case against the right hand of the almighty Tomás Villanueva and other senior managers of companies that allegedly would have paid millions in commissions to promote wind farms, four of them in León.
It had been the subject of a decaffeinated parliamentary committee of inquiry and little else. But the one known as 'wind plot' that was publicly uncovered three years ago when the Tax Agency denounced to the Anti-Corruption Prosecutor's Office the alleged payment of multimillion-dollar commissions to facilitate the installation of wind farms in Castilla y León -at least four of them in the province of León- threatens to become the case of corruption that the PP in the Community and in the Junta de …
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The National Prosecutor's Office opens a case against the right hand of the almighty Tomás Villanueva and other senior managers of companies that allegedly would have paid millions in commissions to promote wind farms, four of them in León.
It had been the subject of a decaffeinated parliamentary committee of inquiry and little else. But the one known as 'wind plot' that was publicly uncovered three years ago when the Tax Agency denounced to the Anti-Corruption Prosecutor's Office the alleged payment of multimillion-dollar commissions to facilitate the installation of wind farms in Castilla y León -at least four of them in the province of León- threatens to become the case of corruption that the PP in the Community and in the Junta de Castilla y León continues to ensure that it does not exist.
The Anti-Corruption Prosecutor's Office, with the approval of the chief prosecutor Anticorruption, Manuel Moix, has filed a formal complaint in Valladolid for this scandal, on suspicion that senior officials of the Junta de Castilla y León, especially focused on the figure of Rafael Delgado, right-hand man for years of the adviser Tomás Villanueva, They have allegedly enriched themselves by charging millions in commissions to large energy companies as 'toll' to facilitate the installation of wind farms in the Community.
So reveal it this Saturday in the paper the Confidential. Along with Rafael Delgado, who was Deputy Minister of Economy with Villanueva and Secretary General of the same Ministry ), the complaint goes against other former senior officials such as Alberto Esgueva and managers of the companies that built the parks, such as four Iberdrola executives, the three brothers who own the construction company Collosa, one of the largest in the community, and Carlos Galdón, among others. In total, this medium stands out, there are 21 people accused of lying, money laundering, fiscal crime and influence peddling. The discovered commissions would be around 80 million euros.
According to Anticorruption, Rafael Delgado was the one who "demanded" all wind promoters "to transfer or allow the participation of local companies in the project under threat of not obtaining the necessary authorization, participation that required it to be close to 40%". Thus, presumably obtaining millionaire benefits, in addition to preventing the free competition of other companies. In the case of León, this method would have been used in wind farms such as those of Argañoso, Valdecarrión, Valdeperondo and La Cueza. Let it be known.
Anticorruption now refers the case to the Valladolid courts since it is there that the crimes of prevarication, laundering, bribery and fiscal crime that will be tried were allegedly committed. It coincides that a court in Valladolid is already investigating the so-called 'Black Pearl Case', in which names such as Esgueva and Delgado himself are investigated for the purchase of a building by the Board's Ministry of Economy on the outskirts of the capital at a suspiciously stratospheric price.
For both cases, the president of the Junta de Castilla y León, Juan Vicente Herrera, had to appear publicly a few months ago to disassociate himself from alleged cases of corruption, although defending legality both in the wind plot and in the case of the acquisition of the Black Pearl, and assured then that he defended all possible involved: "I have confidence in all my senior positions".
This reaction was forced by the accusation of an entrepreneur who considered himself harmed by the 'wind plot' and that he assured that Herrera personally had knowledge for ten years of the abuse of power that had allegedly been imposed in this sector by the autonomous government.