A judge in Tarragona has proposed bringing two senior executives from the Consorci d'Aigües de Tarragona to trial, the director of legal services Jesús Martín García and former president Joan Alginet Aliau, following the complaint filed by the compliance officer that the entity itself had hired. The magistrate sees indications of alleged crimes of prevarication and workplace harassment linked to the hiring of an IT management company.
The case stems from a complaint by a worker who was subsequently dismissed for disciplinary reasons by the same body and to whom the Consorci attributes harassment of several staff members. This is where the main friction of the procedure is concentrated, because the complainant of alleged internal irregularities maintains that his dismissal was a reprisal, while the entity links it to homophobic and sexist behavior reported by five employees.
The judicial resolution links the indications of prevarication and workplace harassment to the hiring of an IT management company. That tender had already been annulled by the Catalan Public Sector Contracts Tribunal, one of the precedents that have ended up pushing the matter into the criminal sphere.
In addition to Jesús Martín García and Joan Alginet Aliau, the procedure originates from a complaint filed by the compliance officer incorporated into the Consorci in March 2023. One of those complaints about the annulled award reached the...
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