€1,778,000: THE FIGURE THE ADMINISTRATION ITSELF SIGNED

At the heart of this case there is a figure, and it was not the defendant who set it.

Throughout 2012 and 2013, the SPRI and the programme auditors did what the rules ordered them to: check. They inspected the project, reviewed the software's development, appraised it. The file records a valuation of the computer applications of 1,778,000 euros (A.5) — issued by the system's own technicians, on material inspection, with payments released on that basis.

It is hard to overstate what that figure means legally. Paying out public funds requires certifying the reality of the investment first: it is not a courtesy, it is a legal mandate — national and European. Every euro paid out in this file carries beneath it, by construction, an official verification that the software existed and was worth what was appraised.

That is why it is worth establishing now, with its document and its date. Because a year later, the same administration that signed it would come to maintain exactly the opposite — that the valid investment was zero, that the project barely existed. Both statements remain today in the same file, a few dozen pages apart, without a single technical report between them explaining the transition. One of the two is false. The one backed by inspections, certifications and payments is the first.