The chairman and CEO of Plus Ultra resign
This week they admitted to the National High Court that they paid 530,000 euros for the mediation of Zapatero and his partner, after which they decided to resign.
The president of the Plus Ultra company , Julio Martínez Sola,has resigned on Friday and its CEO, Roberto Roselli .
The two directors investigated for an alleged crime of trafficking in influence in the case also involving former President José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero acknowledged this week in the National High Court that Plus Ultra signed a contract with a company owned by Julio Martínez Martínez Martínez, a close friendofZapatero.
The amountof €530,000 was channelled through the companies Analysis Variable, Voli Analítica and IOT Domotic Europe.
A desperate measure
Martínez Sola and Rosell have acknowledged that they were "fully aware" that Martínez Martínez, owner of Análisis Importante, and Zapatero " intendedto charge for the efforts they had to make, which they took on to save the company, even though they did not know what internal agreements they might have. "
The two former directors stress that "they did not have a credible finding of the specific actions of the SEPI to provoke or facilitate the delivery of the ransom of Plus Ultra", but "as a desperate measure , it was accepted that Plus Ultra should hire Martínez Martínez to do so, knowing that he had a relationship with Zapatero ".
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