Calling it “forceful”, the businessman and founder of the defunct Open Camp sports theme park, Francisco Medina, has confirmed the filing of a complaint before the Supreme Court for the crimes of “coercion, extortion, falsehood, fraud, prevarication, bribery and illegal financing of a political party” allegedly committed by the Congress Deputies, Gerardo Pisarello and Eloi Badía, as well as by the former President of the Parliamentary Group of Unidas Podemos, Jaume Asens, whom he accuses of having maneuvered with a demonstrated “criminal intensity” to bankrupt the Open Camp project in the Montjuïc Olympic ring in Barcelona.
Medina, current director of Gaudi Innovation, has detailed in conversation with La Vanguardia, the documentation collected during the “instrumentalization” that the defendants carried out of the municipal company BSM and the Barcelona Municipal Sports Commissioner to boldly orchestrate the “asphyxiation” and subsequent ” extinction “of the activity of the Open Camp theme park planned with the municipal corporation prior to the entry of the Commons into the Consistory.
The businessman affected by the “abuse of power” and the “illegalities committed” by the aforementioned politicians has decided to publicly denounce the “criminal intensity” and the “fatal consequences of the arbitrariness and injustice” suffered protected by the new Law 2/2023 of protection of whistleblowers who fight against political corruption.
Medina located in the underused facilities of the Barcelona Olympic Ring Open Camp, the first theme park in the world dedicated to the universe of sport between June 16, 2016 and July 31, 2017. “With the shared will” for the project was located in Barcelona, ??on June 25, 2014, the municipal company BSM concluded with the entrepreneur the necessary rental contract for the transfer of the use and management of the Olympic Stadium and the Olympic Ring Esplanade, for a period of 230 days a year. during 5 years.
And, once the collaboration was combined, BSM and Open Camp jointly promoted a shared commercial development “from being able to charge an entrance to access and enjoy the Olympic facilities repositioned as the first theme park in the world dedicated to sport” thanks to the initial investment of 7.6 million euros carried out by the Medina company. But everything was cut short, according to the businessman, after the 2015 municipal elections that caused a change of government in the Barcelona city council with the arrival of En Comú Podem.
That is when, according to the complainant, the new corporation ordered the commission of “intimidating, fraudulent and illicit acts” aimed at preventing and ending the commercial viability “of the theme park” without assuming the consequent financial compensation derived from non-compliance. contracts signed in previous years.
The method used, always according to the complainant, was the imposition of a series of functional and commercial demands under the risk of paralyzing the exploitation of the park by withdrawing the necessary authorizations and without taking care of or taking responsibility for the initial investment of 7.6 million. of euros to which “the Open Camp company was obliged and carried out, without public subsidies or any cost to the municipal corporation.”
Open Camp bases its complaint, among others, on the “specific inclusion” in the municipal electoral program of En Comú Podem, of “the paralysis and detention of an explicit list of tourist and commercial projects legitimately promoted by private initiative among the that the Olympic Ring theme park was pointed out, inquisitorially, advancing under the title of Model Change: Stop or review projects contrary to the common good.
In the course of the denounced stratagem, Open Camp lost the investments of multinationals such as Microsoft, Randstad, Huawei or Nike, leading to “the total and absolute collapse of the concerted business model” while watching, helplessly, how the City Council reconfigured itself part, and without having to comply with many of the “arbitrary obligations” imposed, a carbon copy of the initial project.
Pending the admission of the complaint, the Prosecutor’s Office has taken a position against them, although the complainants maintain the existence of indications and evidence of the “criminal intensity” of the defendants against a project that was recognized and awarded by different organizations such as the European Union itself.
