The dismissal of the former head of Infrastructure for alleged illegalities in the procurement of works has led to a police raid in alleged corruption case yesterday that resulted in the arrest of engineer. 

According to sources, the police seized various documents in the house of the prisoner, which responds to the initial J. P. G. F. - that will have to be analyzed now by those responsible for the operation.

It all started three years earlier, on February 13, 2008, following the collision of the tanker Stolt Capability against cruise south berth, while conducting a maneuver under heavy easterly storm. The incident severely damaged the structure of the pier, which was opened just two months earlier. It was necessary to inspect the state of this infrastructure to determine the damage, and that the questions were opened.

The technicians responsible for underwater inspection found that under the waters had made works that did not correspond to the project hired and paid to the construction company. Specifically, they had to be 54 piles of 1.5 m diameter actually had a thickness of 1.4 meters, and 33 columns of one meter section were 28. The State Ports Inspection, the Ministry of Development, culminated in 515,182 euros, was paid to the firm without translating into the works executed.

Having noted this irregularity, the Port began the process of accountability that materialized in the dismissal in January 2011 of the now stopped. His appeal to the Labour Court reaffirmed number 2 Málaga action against the Port Authority and served to transfer the case to the prosecution if the facts could constitute an offense.

In vain his argument that the money paid over to the construction served to offset other work above the contracted port elsewhere. That excess money was quantified by the company at EUR 1,124,370. However, the builder agreed with the engineer to collect only the amount of 447,000 euros falsifying other work units, ie doing less piles from those projected. The coach argued in its defense that, in this way, saved 677,370 euros into the coffers port. However, with a mode of action that cost him his job and now his arrest.

The suspicions of the prosecution could be increased by the testimony of some of the people who testified in defense of the engineer. A former director of the Port even declared that seemed adequate compensation to the firm for extra works "according to what was said to be a routine procedure, even if irregular, in liquidating public works carried out in the port," says the judgment court which upheld the dismissal of the now stopped. Similarly, a former president of the Port Authority said that in his time as head of the institution was "usual" in exceedances of the works budget, allocating extra costs to other items through the possibility of using 10 % of the budget of the work.