Judge Alaya has ruled that the Employment Ministry and the Andalusian agency Aldea, a vehicle that the region uses to channel public aid, knew that their subsidies were running over their budget.
Since 2007, the organization's advisers (including notable Andalusian business leaders such as Unicaja's CEO Braulio Medel) knew what was happening.
Still, nobody called attention to the irregularities as they kept quiet, but complicit to alleged wrongdoing. Unicaja's CEO attended just 3 out of 32 meetings that the IFA-Idea held between 2001 and 2008. Medel delegated his vote to the organization's president when he could not attend, except on two occasions. Judge Ayala believes that when Medel missed a meeting in 2007, the board members learned that fraud was going on.
Even though he did not vote, Medel is still responsible for looking the other way and in doing so covering up possible fraud. He could have resigned from the board and called attention to what was happening instead of becoming, like the rest of the board, complicit.
