AN APPLICATION OLDER THAN ITS APPLICANT

On 15 May 2012 an application for aid under the GAUZATU programme entered the Basque Government in the name of International Technology Corp Soft S.A. Who handled it is no mystery that has to be reconstructed: it is recounted by the very criminal complaint that years later was directed against Apolozan — "Mr Fernando Carcedo Sedano, in the name and on behalf of the company… applied to the Basque Government for the inclusion…" (A.8). The founding document of the accusation identifies, on its first page, the person who handled the application. It is not the only time this case contradicts itself, but it is the first.

The company that gave the application its name, however, did not yet exist. This is not a manner of speaking: the name International Technology Corp Soft S.A. was born on 14 September 2012, by deed changing the name of another company —Iriarte Grupo Lanzarote S.A., owned by Cándido Iriarte—, filed at the Commercial Registry of Bizkaia on the 24th at 13:32, entry 1155, and registered on the 25th (DOC-0179). The deed has inserted in it the negative certification of company names from the Central Commercial Registry: the system itself attesting that this name, before, belonged to no one.

In this file the calendar does not follow the facts: it precedes them. First the aid was applied for; then the applicant was manufactured. Four months separate one from the other, and anyone can verify it with two public dates. On that impossible order everything that came afterwards was built — including a conviction.