The Court of Aveiro postponed on Tuesday until the 30th the start of the trial in the case of fraud of 2.6 million euros with European funds due to a violation identified by the Public Prosecutor’s Office (MP).
The point is that the father of one of the accused, who was accused but was dismissed after the opening of the investigation, was not notified of the adversarial process regarding the loss of benefits requested by the MP.
Concluding that this was a “violation that urgently needs to be corrected,” a group of judges decided to postpone the start of the trial to the 30th with the questioning of the defendants and obtaining evidence from third parties and prosecution witnesses.
The case involves three businessmen who are accused of crimes related to fraud in obtaining a subsidy or subsidy, money laundering and willful insolvency.
The company applying for the benefit will also face trial for fraudulently obtaining a grant or subsidy, as well as money laundering.
The criminal acts took place between 2011 and 2013 and involved legal representatives of a group of companies producing concrete products based in the municipality of Oliveira do Bairro, Aveiro district.
According to investigators, during this period the defendants “formulated an intention to obtain economic benefits for themselves and their companies” by applying for financial support programs from IAPMEI – the Agency for Competitiveness and Innovation.
Through a “tripartite invoicing scheme” involving the defendant company, companies based abroad and other companies associated with the defendants, the former received from IAPMEI an amount of approximately 2.6 million euros, which was not used for the development of the industrial project. in respect of which he committed, applies to the same note.
This money, according to the researchers, will circulate between the bank accounts of the companies involved and will ultimately end up in companies controlled by the defendants, with one of them receiving at least 1.1 million euros.
The defendant company, which was said to have been formed solely for the purpose of claiming and receiving benefits, was declared insolvent in 2013 and its creditors, namely IAPMEI, were unable to receive payment of their claims.
Through this activity, according to the indictment, the defendants received benefits in the amount of 2.6 million euros, which the deputy asks to recognize as lost in favor of the state.
Author: Lusa
Source: CM Jornal
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