The judge of the National Court Santiago Pedraz has summoned the ex-director of CDC David Madí and seven other people to declare as investigated in the case opened for alleged irregularities in the bidding, awarding and contracting of the 2014 public tender for the management of services of transport in the urgent and non-urgent modality in Catalonia for which the UTE EGARA was awarded.
In an order, the head of the Central Investigating Court 5 agrees to the statements in these proceedings that derive from the case known as “3 percent.”
Specifically, the magistrate summons Madí to testify on April 26, together with José Ramón Castarlenas Carielo, Manuel Castarlenas Carielo, founders of the RCM consultancy, and María José Cordovilla. The next day, at the same time, also as investigated, Oscar Simón, Juan Alberto Arqués, Fermí Ferrán and Alejandro García-Gascón must appear, all businessmen allegedly involved.
The resolution requires the procedural parties appearing so that within two days they state in writing to the Court the judicial district of the domicile of the investigated party to make the statement by videoconference or, where appropriate, if they choose to appear at the headquarters of the National audience.
The investigating magistrate of the 3% case suspects that the businessman and former CDC Communication Secretary could be involved in one of the pieces of this corruption case, which is investigating whether the Generalitat would have awarded contracts to Egara ambulances irregularly. Since 2015, the company has been managing medical transport in various areas of Catalonia.
A few weeks ago, the Mossos searched the headquarters of the company, which police sources place in the orbit of the 3%, the network of companies that would have received public concessions in exchange for irregular commissions to the CDC. This is the Gordian knot that Pedraz tries to undo in the Hearing and two separate pieces are hanging: that of the Triacom production company and that of Ambulancias Egara.
