FROM €1,778,000 TO ZERO, WITHOUT A SINGLE NEW PIECE OF EVIDENCE

This is the piece that holds up everything else. If it falls, the whole case falls. That is why it is worth looking at calmly.

The same administration that inspected the software, appraised it at 1,778,000 euros (A.5) and released payments on that figure, went on to maintain in the non-compliance file that the computable investment was, in practice, non-existent (A.6). Two incompatible statements, from the same source, about the same object. And between them, in the three parts of the GAUZATU file, there is no new expert report, no supervening fact, no report explaining the transition.

The two cannot both be true. Either the administration failed to tell the truth when it certified and paid, or it failed to tell the truth when it denied it. Either of the two answers points to the manager of the funds — not to the man who was later charged with them.

On that zero everything that comes is built: the demand for repayment, the criminal complaint, the criminal charge, the conviction. The entire building rests on a subtraction its own author has never explained. Remove the zero, and no case remains: what remains is a fraud with the perpetrators moved to a different place.