The mayor of Madrid, José Luis Martínez-Almeida, at a ceremony held at the EMT facilities. Carlos Luján (Europa Press)
More Madrid has demanded this Friday the resignation of Alfonso Sánchez, manager of the Municipal Transport Company (EMT) of the capital, for the case of the 3% commission agent.
Pablo Pradillo, head of the company's Division, received 150,000 euros for helping a construction company to win an award from the public company itself, for which the City Council paid more than five million euros (not including VAT).
“I wanted to start before your questions, [in reference to the journalists], with a statement.
We are going to request the resignation of the manager of the EMT, [Alfonso Sánchez]”, said Maestre during the presentation of the Veranos de la Villa program: “It has been shown that he knew since July 2021 that he had a worker who had charged 3% for awarding a work to the EMT itself”.
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The manager of the EMT "does not remember" if he was notified of the case of the 3% commission agent of the Madrid City Council
"José Luis Martínez-Almeida and Borja Carabante, moreover, have done everything possible to hinder access to information," added the leader of the left-wing party: "They have done nothing.
This worker continues to come to his work every day.
Not only do we want him to be removed from his responsibilities, we want the manager to resign immediately and we are also going to ask for extraordinary advice ”.
The socialist group has also joined this last request.
Maestra's statements come hours after EL PAÍS published the recordings of the interrogations as witnesses, in the Investigating Court 29 of the capital, of the manager of the public company and Gonzalo Fernández, current director of Infrastructures.
The lawyers asked them if the president of one of the UTE companies that won the work met with them and told them at some point that Pradillo was paid to help them with this project.
Both admitted the meetings with him, but only the director of Infrastructures acknowledged that he "told him that he was concerned about that issue."
The manager stated that he did not remember the content of the appointment.
EL PAÍS has asked the EMT if anyone informed their political superiors about him, but the public company has refused to answer.
Pradillo received a commission of 3% (150,000 euros) from a Temporary Union of Companies (UTE), headed by the construction company Inesco.
He himself has admitted that percentage and amounts, but defends that he acted within the law.
According to the EMT worker, who holds the position of head of the Division, there are no incompatibilities because he was on "voluntary leave" at the time of the tender for the project: the reform of some garages in the Fuencarral district.
The payments that Pradillo received from the construction company began before the pandemic and continued during it.
The City Council has spread a blanket of silence on the
Pradillo case
and refuses to offer details of the open internal investigation to the head of the Division.
He refuses to deliver the file to the opposition and to the EMT advisors, as well as the suspected contract and the allegations presented by the employee, who was given 72 hours to provide his version.
The Consistory hides behind the fact that the Office Against Fraud and Corruption has opened some “confidential” investigations, although this process is carried out separately from the internal file of the EMT.
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