Aljustrel: M.P. opened an investigation the company in insolvency debts of 14M euros, most CGD.
The prosecutor's office is investigating the possible existence of crimes in the management of Transaqua, Iberian Society of Piping, which entered into insolvency proceedings for debt 14 million, most of Caixa Geral de Depósitos.
The Attorney General's Office confirmed to Lusa the opening of an investigation "related to the matter that originated in extracted certificate of insolvency proceedings", which runs in the judgment of general jurisdiction Ourique (Beja County), an investigation in which the prosecutor is assisted by the Judicial Police, as well as a resulting investigation of a complaint submitted in June by one of the company's shareholders.
In that complaint, that the Lusa had access, Portuguese businessman José Massano André (to esquerda na foto) calls for a "forensic audit of performance," the chief executive of Transaqua, Spanish Mario Molia, it accuses of "squandering the company's assets to benefit themselves and others with related".
The Portuguese businessman lists a series of situations that considers integrate "the crimes of fraudulent bankruptcy, maladministration, fraud in obtaining subsidies and tax fraud "and that, claims, only were their knowledge after the declaration of insolvency of Transaqua, in October 2017, to have you been "always prohibited access to trial balances and other specific documentation of the company accounts".
Miguel Rodrigues, agent of Mario Molia, He told Lusa that the administration of Transaqua "vehemently rejects any imputation mismanagement or similar, of which frontally challenging all listed facts "by the complainant, "Or at least the meaning and scope of" this "is intended to provide them".
With a debt 13,9 millions of euros - 6,9 of which the Caixa Geral de Depósitos (CGD), 2,4 Caixa Leasing and Factoring (CLF), 2,1 the IAPMEI – Agency for Competitiveness and Innovation and 2,5 the other creditors -, the administration of Transaqua presented an insolvency plan proposal, approved in April at a meeting of creditors (by 96,52% of the vote) and ratified by Ourique court in late May.
incorporated in 2009 by Portuguese and Spanish entrepreneurs to meet the demand for pre-stressed concrete pipes, in particular by the Development Company of the Alqueva Infrastructures (EDIA), the Transaqua began producing in mid 2011 the premises of a former factory of tomato that was inactive, in Old Montes, county Aljustrel (Beja), leased for ten years and adapted to the new functions.
The activity was interrupted for lack of orders in October 2015, having resorted company to a Special Process Revitalization (PER) in 2016, which was approved, not having, yet, the company managed to "generate flows needed to meet their current obligations, so its bankruptcy was decreed ", refer the complaint to André Massano.
The businessman claims that were "high amounts of net losses (9 million) and commissions paid to intermediaries for raising works in Algeria " (6,8 million) that "compelled to seek facts justifying these results".
So, points "sobrefaturação" from a Spanish group that will have created for this purpose a company based in Old Montes who worked only one year, with a single employee and the customer only as Transaqua, as well as "additional cost of the works of manufacturing facilities", which had been established by administration 1,3 million but the accounts are set out in 4,3 million, without that "find justification" to "bypass size".
André Massano refers to acquisition of machinery and equipment "not necessary and not existing" on the premises and claims that the company "has received encouragement from EU funds through forged billing amounting to 1.342.996 euros”.
It also shows the removal of Transaqua equipment for a plant in Murcia (Spain).
Asked by Lusa, the insolvency administrator, Francisco Duarte Areias, He confirmed that there are on the company premises two machines, one "object of a lease agreement with Leasing Caixa" and other "property of the insolvent company", the latter informed that both are in Murcia, "Once they have been acquired for an investment in North Africa and made no sense to move them facilities in Portugal due to transport costs".
CGD claimed "banking secrecy", excusing to make any statement about the process.
IAPMEI already confirmed that the company had 'a project supported under the System of Incentives for Innovation ", It was approved a support 2.941.959 euros for an eligible investment 5.163.630 euros, completed in December 2012, and payments (equipment primarily intended for) It has been completed in July 2014.
The agency said the company was subject to an audit in 2012 and they were made "documentary checks on all incentive payments, as well as a physical verification to investment in June 2014 ".
In response to Lusa, IAPMEI states that unleashed "all legal and contractual arrangements for repayment of the incentive for the company".
