Eight construction companies linked in recent years to cases of corruption of the Popular Party paid more than 4.1 million euros between 2008 and 2019 to economic team, the office that founded the former Minister of Finance Cristóbal Montoro along with other high positions of José María Aznar, and which is in the center of an plot of influences in the Mariano Rajoy stage.
The vast majority of that figure, more than 3.85 million, is concentrated by the Madrid Group Ortiz and Dico and the Valencian Gesfesa and Bertolin. The rest is distributed between the Valencian Cleop and three greats in the sector, OHL, Sacyr and FCC. The figures come from a report by the State Tax Administration Agency (AEAT) of the Summary of the 'Montoro Case'.
Among the main economic team clients in those years, the Madrid construction company Ortiz is highlighted. Through four companies he paid the office 2,176,505 euros, more than the vast majority of IBEX 35 companies. Most of these payments were made through the Ortiz SL Business Group (1.25 million) and Ortiz Construcciones y Projects S (884,026 euros).
In addition, two other Ortiz societies paid 41,261 euros to Global Ateli, to which the economic team partners transferred in 2015 the activity of the firm after knowing that the Anti -Corruption Prosecutor's Office investigated them for a contract by finger of the cameras of commerce. Specifically, Ortiz Real Estate Area SL paid 15,125 euros and surface Investment portfolio SA, 26,136 euros.
The latter, as explained on its websiteit is a company “constituted in 2010 and managed by Grupo Ortiz, in order to manage and exploit a portfolio of 13 buildings owned by the Ivima”, the former Housing Institute of Madrid (current autonomous agency Social Housing Agency of the Community of Madrid) “Low surface right contracts. These properties add 1,500 homes for rent. They are active active quality, all located in Madrid.”
Ortiz payments to economic team equals about 217,650 euros per year (more than 18,000 euros per month), not far from the 288,000 euros that the group charged for all its services in 2024 its auditor, PWC, according to its last consolidated accounts. A construction spokesman indicates that the firm founded by Montoro lends them “Tax Legal Technical Advice” since 2009 through a “monthly match.”
“It is the usual practice with the law firms and business advisors.” The relationship, he explains, began with the exit abroad of Grupo Ortiz, which “then had no international experience” and needed economic-tributary studies of the countries where I was going to work, such as Poland, Romania, Colombia, Peru or Mexico.
Based in the Vallecas Ensanche and a very discreet public profile, the Carpenter family group invoiced 761 million last year, with 3,380 professionals in staff.
In 2010, during the instruction of the Gürtel case, the AEAT revealed that Grupo Ortiz paid almost 1.4 million to companies of the former PP deputy Jesús Merino, former vice president of the Junta de Castilla y León and sentenced firmly by the Supreme Court in October from 2020 to 3 years and 7 months for the Gürtel case.
“It would be convenient to deepen”
Gürtel's summary also revealed that Merino, former secretary general of the PP of Castilla y León, paid 116,000 euros to economic team in 2008 through Everland SL, a company that, as Eldiario.es advanced in 2013, was then homemade at that time Vice Secretary General of the PP and current head of the PP delegation in the European Parliament, Esteban González Pons.
The AEAT report sent to the investigators of the 'Montoro Case' days before the Supreme Court ratified Merino's conviction for the Gürtel, it emphasizes that the attention is drawn to the operation carried out in 2008 between economic team and Everland. ” “It would be convenient to deepen this relationship,” he added.
Gürtel is not the only corrupt plot of the PP that has splashed the Ortiz group. In 2010 admitted which paid the foundations of CDC 400,000 euros to enter the Catalan market. In 2015 it was pointed out in the inquiries of the Punic plot next to FCC, Urbaser and Avantia paying 400,000 euros in electoral surveys for the party in municipalities of the PP where they obtained awards.
In the case of Ortiz, he paid 11,100 euros for a survey for Ignacio García Vinuesa, then popular candidate for mayor of Alcobendas. Then the construction of a public school and a sports pavilion were awarded there. Ortiz sources stress that the group “has not had any judicial cause” for these facts.
In Púnica, the promoter Dico was involved, which organized the hunts in which Francisco Granados, former general secretary of the Madrid PP and right hand of Esperanza Aguirre, charged alleged bites in exchange for public contracts. According to the AEAT, Economic Team charged 406,000 euros of Promodico SL, the promoter of Dico, declared in the bankruptcy in June 2008 (shortly after his heiress, Dho, who directed David Marjaliza, partner of Granados) and a fixed of the list of delinquents to the public hacienda that Montoro created. In the last one, published in June, Promodico's debt was 7,484,321 euros.
AEAT underlines relations between companies linked to DICO and economic team. Turegano Corporate, a society that was linked to five firm partners charged in the 'Montoro Case' (Ricardo Martínez Rico, Francisco Piedras, Salvador Ruiz Gallud and Manuel Vicente-Tuctor), was “beneficiary of a purchase and promise option of sale” of participations of 550,880 euros in a promoter participated by Dic Opaque outside.
This purchase option was granted by Geexgroup Dei, promoter constituted in Valdemoro (where he was mayor Granados) of which the co -founder of Dico, Francisco Colado, was partner. The host of some of those hikes of Granados, Ricardo Romero de Tejada, former general secretary of the Madrid PP and former mayor of Majadahonda participated in that operation. Also his daughter Covadonga Romero de Tejada, who worked for years in the firm founded by Montoro.
Turegano Corporate SL and exploits and developments of Mexico had as administrator and vice-secretary, respectively, Vicente-Tutor, whose wife, the official of the AEAT Paula Vázquez, was appointed Chief in the National Office of Fraud Research (ONIF) for Montoro as soon as he returns to the Treasury. Turegano came to have on the payroll in 2009 to another founder of the economic team, José Manuel Fernández Norniella, former high position of Aznar condemned by the 'Black' Caja Madrid cards that in 2012 welcomed the fiscal amnesty of his former partner Montoro.
Another construction company involved in Punica was the old OHL of the late former Minister Juan Miguel Villar Mir, who, according to the AEAT report, paid 90,750 euros to economic team. Another 254,366.2 euros paid two companies of the Villar Mir group, former reference shareholder of the construction company today known as OHLA: Ferroatlántica (143,046.2 euros) and real estate space SA (111,320 euros).
On the other hand, Portland Valderrivas, a filial until 2024 of FCC (another construction company that, like OHL and Sacyr, made illegal donations to the PP, according to Luis Bárcenas' roles) paid 129,800 euros to the law firm founded. Sacyr paid another 45,980 euros through Sacyr construction. His former itinere subsidiary (which in 2018 appointed Francisco Piedras, director of the Montoro Cabinet between 2003 and 2004) paid the firm another 157,300 euros. Then, according to sources in the sector, Sacyr was no longer his reference shareholder (he sold most of itinere in 2008, although he was a shareholder until 2019).
Payments to the consultant who founded the former Minister by Gesfesa: 1,032,200 euros, of which 499,800 euros were paid for economic team and 532,400 euros to Global Ateli. The founder of Gesfesa, Federico Ferrando, was arrested in May 2021 in the framework of the Azud case, investigating alleged bites in exchange for public works awards of the City of Valencia during the time of the deceased Rita Barberá.
Ferrando, brother of the former president of the Valencian employer until 2011, Rafael Ferrando, participated in the ITV ball, the first great privatization piloted by the former president of the Generalitat Valenciana Eduardo Zaplana and origin of the 'Eraial case' for which the former minister was convicted in October.
In the Azud case, Cleop is also involved, chaired until June by businessman Carlos Turró, to which this newspaper defined years ago as “the favorite builder of the Valencian PP.” According to the AEAT report, this Valencian construction company, which has been suspended in the stock market, paid 24,200 euros to the firm that Montoro founded through three companies: Cleop itself (12,100 euros) and two subsidiaries, Sturm 2000 SL and Gerocleop SL (6,500 euros each).
Turró, investigated in Lezo, was arrested in 2016 for the known as 'Taula Case', on the financing of the València PP. Among the construction companies that contributed to the irregular financing of Barberá campaigns, for which the former vice mayor of Valencia, Alfonso Grau, appears FCC and the Valencian Bertolin, owner of Cementos La Unión, and which according to the AEAT report paid 241.99.97 euros to economic team.
Those more than 4.1 million paid for eight construction companies related to PP scandals are added 578,640 euros paid by Globalvia, concessionaire of the M-45 in Madrid, and about 300,000 of two other large of the sector: the already extinct Isolux Corsan (129,800 euros), also related to several cases of corruption, and railway, with 583.824 euros through Ferrovial Servicios (293,424 euros) and Cintra (290,400 euros).
The anonymous complaint that gave rise to the procedure that has ended with Montoro accused assured that he was a former collaborator in the Ministry, Antonio Beteta, who invited Ferrovial to hire economic team to achieve favorable legal changes.
To the sums paid to the dispatch by construction companies, the income of other real estate companies is added. They stand out with 312,785 euros Rayet, Quabit and another company (Restablo Inversiones SL) administered by the owner of the first two, Félix Abánades, which has been trying to promote a gigantic artificial beach in Alovera (Guadalajara) since 2017. O Iberfin Capital (266,200 euros), from Andrés' family, real estate entrepreneurs in Valencia who were accused of the Bancaja looting of the popular José Luis Olivas.
This entity, integrated in 2010 in Caja Madrid (in the last Bankia, of which another imputed in the 'Montoro Case', Miguel Crespo), was another great client of economic team. Specifically, Bancaja paid 369,548.7 euros to the firm founded by Montoro.
For his part, Reyal Urbis, who has been leading the list of Morasos for years, paid 60,500 euros to economic team, as well as Rayet. Reyal Urbis was one of the founders of the G14 real estate lobby, which the office billed 524,260 euros. Economic team charged between 2008 and 2019 at least 5.35 million thirty employers and lobbies and 5.2 million organizations and companies in the hands of governments of the PP.
