The three daughters of the lawyer José MarÃa CorbÃn, brother-in-law of the former mayor of Valencia Rita Barberá, have defended before the judge in the Azud case that they bought their apartments with the money their father gave them from a lottery that he had won in the ruling.
CorbÃn’s daughters have appeared this Wednesday at their own request before the Investigating Court number 13 of Valencia, which is investigating the so-called Azud case, a procedure in which they are being investigated.
The main branch of the Azud case, in which CorbÃn is accused, investigates alleged bribes with supposedly fictitious invoices that several companies awarded public works from the Valencia City Council would have made.
CorbÃn’s daughters have explained before the judge that their father made a donation to help them buy a flat after winning the lottery in the ruling, a total of 360,000 euros. Those investigated have indicated that CorbÃn initially invested all that money in Bankia shares, she lost everything and, when she recovered it, she handed it over to them, as Europa Press has learned. In this way, they have denied that this income came from commissions.
In addition, they have indicated that they owned 16% of the shares of CorbÃn Abogados because in 2009, after detecting lung cancer with metastasis to the brain in his father, he wanted to leave “everything fixed” and handed over those shares to them. And they have indicated that they have “never” received dividends from the company or anything.
Two of the three daughters have acknowledged having done work in the company but sporadically: one of them to start up the computer system and the other carried out work related to civil liability.
In summary, the three daughters have stated that they had no relationship with CorbÃn Abogados or with their clients, some of whom were investigated in the procedure, and have stressed that the money they had did not come from the alleged crimes investigated.
