The former vice mayor of Valencia Alfonso Grau is the protagonist of the separate pieces “2, 3, 4, 5 and 6” of the Azud case that still remained secret, along with 23 pages distributed in six volumes of the more than 100 that the cause, since it began in April 2017.
Some volumes on which the secret of the summary has been lifted this week. And they have revealed the investigations to follow the trail of money carried out by the agents of the Central Operational Unit (UCO) of the Civil Guard, the Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office and the Investigative Court 13.
“The investigation has been able to confirm the participation of the investigated Alfonso Grau in at least 8 corruption schemes based on urban operations” in exchange for the collection of bribes, says the investigating magistrate in the proceedings that initiated the rogatory commissions to the US, Switzerland, Monaco , Panama and Luxembourg. Eight corruption plots that Levante-EMV compiles after the secret of the summary was lifted.
The “schools” operation. It was the initiative of four development companies, led by businessmen Mónica Montoro, Jaime Febrer and Federico Ferrando, to assume the debt that the Valencia City Council owed ten religious congregations, in exchange for keeping three municipal plots, chosen by the promoters with the alleged connivance of municipal officials and politicians. An operation in which the Valencia City Council lost 14 million euros.
The failed Catholic University hospital. In this other plot, Febrer has been investigated in connivance with Alfonso Grau and José María Corbín in the alleged rigging of the document to allocate land to the Catholic University of Valencia and build a hospital, which was a failed project.
The Grao PAI. The businessman Jaime Febrer and his company Construcciones Valencia Constitución were part of the million-dollar purchase of land in the integrated action program (PAI) of Grao, where the Formula 1 circuit was later built, and which the crisis left in the air. For this purpose, the company Acinelav (València backwards) was created on September 21, 2006, constituted by Bankia and a group of Valencian developers, who acquired the land for 348 million euros from CLH (Company Logistics of Hydrocarbons) on December 28, 2008, which made Acinelav the owner of 32% of the land in PAI del Grao.
The “book” hit in Cabanyal. Between 2001 and 2002, Construcciones Valencia Constitución made a huge splash through an exchange with the Valencia City Council in which it seemed to have privileged information. Febrer had the virtue of purchasing the two plots on Rosario del Cabanyal street, later graced with the purchase by the Valencia City Council to expand the Holy Week museum, promoted by a motion by Alfonso Grau (who allegedly had provided privileged information to the businessman in exchange for the alleged payment of alleged bribes). Febrer agreed to sell by exchange: the plots on Rosario Street, for which Febrer paid 243,650 euros and which he later sold for 763,186 euros, for which he earned 373,465 euros, in exchange for a plot of land on Andreu Alabarta Street, according to the documentation on record. in the summary.
The VPO business. In 2004, a company owned by Febrer together with the Ferrando and Montoro family, Desarrollos Urbanísticos de Nuevos Espacios (Dune) SL, also participated in a curious exchange with the Valencia City Council in which the council handed over municipal land to this company, without public tender will be held in exchange for officially protected housing. Plots were also awarded by tender to build VPO in the PAI Moreres and in the PAI of Patraix (awarded to the company Actuaciones Urbanísticas al Mar SL) and in the PAI of Quatre Carreres, which was won by the Febrer Costa Azahar company Programas Inmobiliarios.
A joint venture with Aumsa. Febrer wanted to create a mixed company to build officially protected housing (VPO), following in the wake of the dozen similar companies that, starting in 2004, the then Minister of Territory Rafael Blasco promoted the construction of cheap housing, but which were a absolute failure. February 2007 Banco de Valencia SA and UFC SA. Rita Barberá’s brother-in-law received 3,000 euros per month for his “management” from March 27, 2007 to September 17, 2008.
The nursing home business. The promoter Jaime Febrer partnered with the company Gesmed and, after resorting to the efforts of José María Corbín, the UTE achieved the home care package it wanted in 2009, with a contract for two years and 1.5 million with the City Council. from Valencia. On April 1, 2009, Febrer left the UTE, transferring to Gesmed the 30% acquired exactly one year earlier.
The properties acquired by Alfonso Grau. The former vice mayor of Valencia Alfonso Grau acquired four real estate properties allegedly paid for by Febrer. The apartment in Porta de la Mar in València, Grau’s family home – where he has been arrested for the Azud case, in 2021, and for Clepsidra, in 2016 –, a commercial premises on Gran Vía Fernando el Católico and a ground floor and a garage on Avenida de las Jacarandas in Burjassot. The real estate properties involved the disbursement, with financial engineering tricks, of almost 1.5 million euros.
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