Madrid (EFE) trying to get contracts with the Valencian administration: “I asked Paco Camps to help me and he helped me”.
“I understand that now you want to deny the undeniable, but there were many people in Valencia who knew what my relationship with Camps was,” said the businessman, who, like a dozen defendants, has reached an agreement with the Prosecutor’s Office in this trial of the National Court, in which the former regional president faces a tax request for 2 and a half years in prison for the alleged irregular award to the plot of a Fitur exhibitor, in 2009.
They were “friends” since 2003, Pérez has indicated, in prison for other branches of the case and to whom it seems “obscene to deny the obvious.”
Minutes before, the considered number two of Gürtel, Pablo Crespo, has insisted that “everyone” knew the “good relationship” between the two.
The president of the court asks Camps to calm down
Camps, who openly disagrees with the Bigotes version, has been uneasy during the businessman’s statement, making fuss and comments, which has led the president of the court, José Antonio Mora, to ask him for “silence and respect for the room” .
At the beginning of the session, Judge Mora called for “calm and institutional respect” after the episode a few weeks ago in which the former president confronted Francisco Correa and accused him of lying in his statement, in which he also argued the good relationship between him and Pérez. The Prosecutor’s Office has requested a transfer to the courts of Torrejón de Ardoz (Madrid) in case it proceeds to investigate a crime of obstruction of justice.
The beginnings of the Gürtel plot in the Valencian Community date back to 2004, according to the version of Álvaro Pérez, who explained that, after the “success” he obtained by organizing events for the Camps campaign for the presidency of the Generalitat, he He told him: “Come to Valencia, you are going to do all the acts of the party.”
Orange Market, Gürtel’s Valencian subsidiary that managed to achieve a business volume of almost seven million euros, settled in Valencia, although, over the years, they realized that, although they did many events for the PP , they hardly worked for the administration, unlike other companies, he has related.
“Then I asked Paco Camps to help me and he helped me”, asserted Pérez, who said that he was in charge of “getting the client” and not “the issue of contracts” or “if it was necessary to intervene in the technical specifications”, although he has acknowledged that invoices were split at the direction of the administration.
“Advantage” in the award of an exhibitor in Fitur
In relation to the award of the assembly of a Fitur 2009 exhibitor, Bigotes has admitted that they had an “advantage” in that fair, although they have denied that, in front of him, Camps ordered the former general director of institutional promotion Salvadora Ibars to was awarded to Gürtel, although she has admitted that someone had to give her orders and that she depended on the Presidency.
He has indicated that, at one point, within the framework of this contract, he called Camps, who reassured him and told him that he would do “everything”, and in this sense, he has reported that he turned to the former Valencian president on other occasions, like when he asked him to call the former counselor Alicia de Miguel to give him a job.
During this day, that telephone conversation was heard once again in which the former president of the Generalitat congratulated this businessman on Christmas holidays, whom he referred to as a “soul friend” and said “I love you an egg”, and it has been seen the video of the Bigotes wedding, where he is seen praising the expresident: “He is great as a person and as a friend. He never fails ”.
Other much more bitter conversations have also been heard, in which former leaders of the Valencian PP tried to reassure Pérez, who was speaking through tears after the outbreak of the Gürtel case. In one of them he asked that they speak “with the boss”, with “Paco Camps”, because his “obsession” was that “they convey to him that he had not committed any crime because that was my perception -he said-“. “I was aware that he appreciated and loved me,” he said in another.
