The former president of the Generalitat Valenciana, Eduardo ZaplanaIt is the type of person who can wear a high-end watch of 20,000 euros on their wrist. And live in a 240 square meter floor in the exclusive Salamanca district of Madrid valued at 1.6 million. But at the same time hires in black (despite having been Minister of Labor) to a domestic worker to whom he pays a salary of between € 491.89 and € 506.89 per month. And to which he dismisses with a settlement of 167,652 euros after seven years of services provided (of which four were discharged).
These are some of the details included in the latest report of the agents of the group of crimes against the administration of the Central Operational Unit (UCO) of the Civil Guard, advanced by El Plural, and incorporated into the Erial case that investigates the alleged payment scheme and collection of bribes and the consequent money laundering allegedly organized by the Cotino family and Eduardo Zaplana along with their friends and alleged front men.
The Civil Guard “summarizes” and documents (with files seized in the records or with Zaplana’s own agendas) the “Unique corporate structure, with transformations over time, with a presence in several countries and with a temporary stay between 2005 and 2018“Until he was arrested on May 22, 2018.
A business structure that, in the opinion of the Civil Guard, “aims to channel, hide and make available to its final beneficiaries a series of funds of alleged criminal origin” and “from the commissions apparently paid in attention to the awards of the Wind Energy Plan of the Valencian Community -which is quantified in 6.4 million euros- as well as the subscribers in the Principality of Andorra between the years 2004 and 2007 -which exceed 9.8 million euros- “. A total of 16.2 million destined to maintain a high lifestyle, presumably, for Eduardo Zaplana and his environment, invest 4.3 million in brick in the acquisition of urban plots in Vila-joiosa, two luxury penthouses in Altea, a flat in Madrid, high-end cars and watches. Also to ruinous investments that made them lose money.
As reported by Levante-EMV since the Erial case broke out in May 2018, the four instrumental companies used in this operation were Costera del Glorio, Medlevante, Turnis Sylvatica and Gesdesarrollos Integrales. A business network created by Zaplana’s lawyer and tax advisor, Francisco Grau, and executed by Joaquín Barceló, a childhood friend and partner of the former minister at the Peña Picarol in Benidorm. Both were related to Terra Mítica, the theme park and star project of the former head of the Consell. Through Costera del Glorio, the apartment was acquired on Calle Núñez de Balboa in Madrid, which Zaplana used to enjoy.. This was confirmed by the domestic employee to the Civil Guard, who has not left a fringe to be verified. “Eduardo Zaplana was the only person who used the house from 2010 to 2018 (…) The things that were in the house, such as the clothes, were his.” Costera del Glorio also paid for the renovation of the 215 square meter apartment for 91,250 euros and the purchase of two Bang & Olufsen televisions for € 21,000, but managed by Gregorio Fideo, the secretary of the former minister who died in 2004.
Fideo was precisely the one who interviewed, along with Zaplana, the domestic worker who ruled Núñez de Balboa’s apartment until 2018. And with the former minister, he was the one with whom he negotiated the conditions of his “hiring,” in black for the first three years. When she asked if they could register her with Social Security, the woman told the Civil Guard that Zaplana told her that “it was complicated, because the apartment belonged to a friend”, although she was finally registered.
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Eddie is an Australian news reporter with over 9 years in the industry and has published on Forbes and tech crunch.