The National Court has agreed to charge the businessman and former leader of Convergència Democràtica de Catalunya (CDC) David Madí in the framework of the investigation that is being followed for alleged irregular awarding of contracts to the company Ambulancias Egara by the Generalitat de Catalunya, a derivative of what is known as the '3% case'.
This is stated in an order of March 6 of the investigating judge Santiago Pedraz, advanced by Europa Press, which also includes seven other people, who are also granted the status of investigated in the case.
This is the owner of the company Ambulancias Egara, Óscar Simón;
José Ramón and Manuel Castarlenas, from the RCM consulting firm;
and businessmen María José Cordovilla, Juan Alberto Arqués, Fermí Ferrán and Alejandro García-Gascón.
In the judicial resolution it is anticipated that the magistrate will take a statement from all of them, although before setting a date for it, he requires them to appoint a lawyer for their legal representation "for the sake of the right of defense."
He points out that once the lawyer has been designated, he will transfer everything that has been done in the case to them.
Pedraz's decision responds to the request of the Anti-Corruption Prosecutor's Office, which interested in these accusations based on the police report that works in the case and on the previously agreed entries and records at the headquarters of the sanitation company.
The magistrate agreed to the entry and search on March 2 at the headquarters of Ambulancias Egara in Terrassa (Barcelona), at the premises of a temporary union of companies (UTE) in Lleida, and at a consultancy in Barcelona, to locate documentation on those alleged irregular awards of the patient transport service when he was in charge of the Government CDC.
The investigations focus on finding indications related to the award of three batches of the sanitary contest of Catalonia in 2015 to a joint venture in which Ambulancias Egara participated.
It so happens that Madí was already sentenced in October 2022 in the framework of the 'Triacom case' by Criminal Court 23 of Barcelona to 14 months in prison and a fine of 219,750 euros after the trial against him and seven other defendants for a plot of false invoices in 2011 in which he participated as a necessary cooperator to defraud the Treasury.
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