“It is convenient to banish the temptation to attribute possible criminal responsibilities to the investigated one on the flimsy argument of being the maximum person in charge of the Barcelona City Council”, since it has no “foundation” or “justification”. The Anti-Corruption Prosecutor's Office has thus requested the provisional filing of the case against Ada Colau for the award of subsidies to related entities such as the Platform for People Affected by Mortgages (PAH), of which she was a spokesperson for five years.

The Barcelona Investigating Court 21 is investigating the mayor for alleged crimes of embezzlement, prevarication, fraud, prohibited negotiations and influence peddling, after the lawsuit filed against her by the Association for Transparency and Democratic Quality.

Now the Public Ministry, after evaluating the files of grants awarded, and after Colau's statement as accused and the intervener delegated as a witness, concludes that the latter "did not observe in any of the files in which she reported possible irregularities of a criminal nature ».

In his brief, the prosecutor recalls that Colau from the beginning of his mandate decided to delegate the power to grant subsidies to the administrative bodies of the different areas and managements, and that the commissions investigated were unanimously approved by the Government Commission.

It also indicates that the fact that the mayor delegated said competence "already allows us to intuit" that she had "no" intervention in the files that could be processed. For this reason, the Prosecutor's Office notes that the mayor "does not dictate a single resolution -arbitrary or not- in the administrative files investigated nor, consequently, that he can do it knowing his injustice."

In addition, the Public Ministry maintains that the entities on which subsidies are investigated "did not specifically benefit from a special favor treatment, but rather their subsidies were processed in the same way as those destined for hundreds of entities" with a procedure that, apparently from the prosecutor, it was not arbitrary.