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Act It does not rule out appearing as injured in the judicial case investigating the alleged irregular contracts that involve the former PSOE Santos Cerdán and José Luis Ábalos positionsas well as Koldo García.

In a press conference on the occasion of the Company’s Shareholders Board, its Director of Legal Advisory, José Julio Figueroa, accompanied by the President and CEO of ACCIONA, José Manuel Entrecanales, has advanced that he will analyze that he will appear as harmed in this case.

Figueroa has admitted that it is still premature to make that decision, since the result of the Civil Guard Research and of the findings found by the investigating judge, after which it will be analyzed whether to personally as injured.

The manager has assured that the company has not found any indication that there have been bites, although it has transferred its respect for ongoing research, remembering that it is that, an investigation. “It seems difficult for us to have happened,” he acknowledged.

Figueroa has defended that Exderective of Acciona that appears in the Research, Fernando Merinohad not sufficient autonomy to control the awards that were carried out, although the company has already launched an investigation to know to what extent the internal controls could fail.

For his part, Entrecanales has assured that Merino was up to five steps below his responsibility, so he did not know him directly, although he has now known that his cessation in 2021 was due to lack of confidence and in a context of restructuring of the Construction division in Navarra.

“He acted with the autonomy of his responsibility in a decentralized organization and had the authority on contracts,” he explained, pointing out, in any case, that the volume of these contracts “represents a very small amount compared to the total volume of activity of the construction business.”

“Apparently, this former employee would have introduced an external company, now under investigation, in the ecosystem of more than 30,000 collaborating companies in Act“He has continued with his explanation.

Asked if he knew Koldo García or Santos CerdánEntrecanales has said no, although he did meet José Luis Ábalos once when he was appointed minister in a usual appointment with public office.

He also recalled that he has recently ceased the Responsible for the construction business in Spain, Just Vicente Pelegrinito the extent that such facts could reveal a lack of diligence in the exercise of their management and supervision responsibilities.

It has also opened internal investigation to determine whether the controls provided for in its policies and procedures could have been breached or eluded, while the legal procedures have been initiated for the final termination of the contracts with the company investigated in question (Servinabar) for breach of its normative and behavioral standards.

Will act with “forcefulness”

With all this, Entrecanal He has assured that the company will act forcefully before behaviors that do not meet the standards of “integrity, ethics and honesty” with which he defends that he always acts acts.

During his speech at the Company’s Shareholders Board, the manager has thus lamented the reputational impact derived from the linkage of this former employee of the company with the plot.

“We deeply hurts the reputational impact that these information could have, both on our company and on the more than 66,000 employees that we develop our work with enthusiasm, effort, commitment and the most absolute integrity and rigor,” he said.

Entrecanales has argued that all employees and collaborators of Act They know and understand their standards and control mechanisms, so if individual breaches or control of controls will be found, he has defended that appropriate measures will be taken “with all possible forcefulness.”

“Because in Act We do not understand another way of working that is not with integrity, ethical and honesty. And believe me that, in our case, these values ​​are not a slogan: they are the basis on which we build each decision, each project and each trust relationship. We will continue to act with the maximum firmness to preserve what we are and what we want to continue being: an exemplary company committed to legality and ethics, “he concluded.