Two former councilors of the Generalitat distance themselves from the 'Gürtel' and assure that they did not know 'El Bigotes'

Rosado maintains that he signed broken invoices because he believed that "the normal channels were followed"

MADRID, 1 Mar. (EUROPA PRESS) -

The former Health Ministers of the Generalitat Valenciana Manuel Cervera and Luis Rosado have distanced themselves from 'Gürtel' in their statement this Wednesday in the trial that is being followed in the National Court for some of the awards to the plot while they have assured that they will not They knew one of their leaders, Álvaro Pérez 'El Bigotes'.

"When we went to the party events I was in the chicken coop, I was one of those who were there and I saw a man with an impressive mustache," Cervera acknowledged to questions from the Prosecutor's Office, making it clear that, despite everything, he never met or had coffee with 'El Bigotes. "I never spoke to him, neither about this nor about anything," he added.

Cervera, who is facing a request for eight years of disqualification for a crime of prevarication, has also withdrawn from contracting with Orange Market, one of the Gürtel companies, stating that he did not have the powers to do so, but that the They were delegated "in all general directions."

The Public Ministry has approached Cervera about the video exhibited at the presentation of the opening ceremony of the Hospital Clínico, an event of "great relevance" and attended by the then president of the Generalitat Francisco Camps.

"I did not supervise videos, but my only concern was that President Camps, like everyone, is very jealous of themselves and the position they occupy. My only obsession was that if I went out once he had to go out 10. If I went out they would surely have some anger with me. That's why I supervised that video," he justified.

For his part, the ex-minister Luis Rosado has denied that he had any kind of intervention in that act of presentation. "No, I was invited as other charges were invited. I only attended," he argued.

In relation to it, Rosado has stressed that he attended the event and verified that it was "important, interesting", and that there were a series of screens that projected images "very representative of what was going to happen".

Rosado, who is also facing a request for eight years of disqualification, has been questioned about the invoice that they gave him related to the sound of the aforementioned video. "Folders with documents that I had to dispatch arrived every day. This invoice appears in one of these documents. I always shared with my adviser anything that I had to sign and at that moment ask," he pointed out.

His advisor, he continued, explained to him that the invoice corresponded to the event held at the hospital. "Then I signed, because it is an act that I have lived. I signed at that moment," he acknowledged.

Asked if he was aware that he signed an invoice that had been adjusted to be less than the limits of the minor contract, Rosado was clear: "I thought and I still think that the normal channels of this document were followed. I considered that it should be signed."

In relation to 'El Bigotes', Rosado has pointed out that he never got to know him. "I have never spoken to him, no one has introduced him to me, I have never seen him and he has never entered my office," she has maintained.

In this regard, the ex-minister has acknowledged that he is "a little outraged" by Pérez's statement in the trial. "Because I run into him on the street and he doesn't know who I am. When they asked him I would have liked him to have turned around, because he wouldn't have known who I am," he concluded.