The National Court has agreed to impute the businessman and former director of Convergència Democràtica de Catalunya (CDC) David Madí in the framework of the investigation that is ongoing for alleged irregular awarding of contracts to the company Ambulancias Egara by the Generalitat of Catalonia, a derivative of the known as the 3% case.
This is stated in an order of March 6 of the investigating judge of the 3% case, Santiago Pedraz, which 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, according to Ep.
In Providencia it is added that the magistrate will take all of them, so before setting a date on the same statement, 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 takes into account the request of the Anti-Corruption Prosecutor's Office, which refers to these accusations based on the police witness that works in the case and on the previously agreed entries and records at the headquarters of the sanitation company.
Convicted in 2022
The magistrate approved the entry and search on March 2 at the headquarters of Ambulancias Egara in Tarrasa (Barcelona), at the premises of a temporary union of companies (UTE) in Lleida, and at a consultancy in Barcelona, for locate documentation on these alleged irregular awards of the patient transport service when he was in charge of the Government Convergència and Artur Mas as regional president, who had had a Madí as his right hand.
The judicial investigations are focused on finding indices related to the awarding 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.
