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The Whiskers began
to give away clothes
when multiplied by 10
contracts in Valencia
JMR - Madrid - 12/05/2010
Orange Market began operations in Valencia at the end of 2003. That year, only 88,000 euros turnover. Its director, Álvaro Pérez, The Whiskers, only got three customers and one of them was another firm in the corrupted frame, Special Events. The Whiskers gave no costumes. In 2004, things were not much better: 237,000 euros entered and managed only a small contract from the Comunidad Valenciana through VAERS, a body under the Ministry of Planning and Housing. The Whiskers gave no costumes.
2005 was the year of takeoff . Orange Market
multiplied its turnover by 10 to 2.8 million, of which over half were the contract awarded by the Valencian Agency of Tourism for the installation of a pavilion at the tourism fair in Madrid by 1.57 million. Won the contract in January 2005 and that month began giving away clothes. The chief of staff of the Minister of Tourism and executive vice president of the Valencian Agency of Tourism, Rafael Betoret, was in year six successful Orange Market tailored suits, a jacket, trousers and three American. That year, Orange Box Market was also in the Valencian PP (712,000 euros) and who was then deputy secretary general, Ricardo Costa, gave him three suits between January and December. Regional vice president, Victor Campos, he played three suits, two American and five shorts. The Gift followed in 2006 and included the president of Valencia, Francisco Camps, that between January 2006 and spring 2007, received five suits, five American and two pairs of shoes.
Judge Jose Flors, who investigated the case in Valencia, found sufficient evidence to impute to these charges for bribery and improper to propose the trial opened against them. But the Criminal Chamber of the Court of Valencia, by two votes to one, closed the case on the ground that the four officials had no connection with the awarding of contracts Orange Market and did not know that the Whiskers would have given 30,000 euros in suits in gratitude. The Supreme Court resolved today, between the strong pressure from the PP, if the case returns to Valencia to try Camps and other charges involved.
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