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Valencia Socialists accuse Francisco Camps of irregular funding of his party
By m.p. - Nov 9, 2009 - 1:42 PM
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The complaint registered at the Valencia High Court also names construction companies and other party leaders in Valencia
The Valencia Socialists, the PSPV, have this Monday presented a court complaint at the Valencia High Court against the Partido Popular Regional President, Francisco Camps, accusing him of irregular funding of his party. The list of crimes alleged are perversion of the course of justice, misuse of funds, falsification, electoral crimes, distorting accounts and fiscal crimes.
The party also direct their accusations at the leadership of the Valencia Partido Popular, at Pedro García, formerly Director General of Radio Televisión Valenciana, and six constructors.
According to El País, the PSPV support their complaint with a report from the money laundering unit of the National Police on the company Orange Market relating to funding of the PP in Valencia. Orange Market is at the centre of the Gürtel corruption investigation, the case which also saw Francisco Camps investigated for a time. The paper notes that the police report was rejected by the Valencia High Court during the course of its Gürtel investigation.
There are more than 90 sheets to the report, which are said to maintain that some of the Valencia PP’s political events were funded with money from the construction companies. These companies also allegedly paid Orange Market for services which had not, in fact, been rendered. A massive overspend on sound engineering for the Pope’s visit to Valencia three years ago is also alleged on the part of Canal 9, during the time the station was under the control of Pedro García. El País names him as a close personal friend of Álvaro Pérez, believed to be the head of the corrupt network in Valencia.