According to the union building officer, Igor San José, more than 200 of those 18 companies had falsified documentation, fines of more than EUR 250 000 have been imposed on them and accumulate a debt of more than EUR 4.5 million in unpaid wages and in unpaid social security contributions. "In view of what has happened so far, we can say calmly that fraud can be repeated this summer if corrective action is not taken. Especially if we take into account the size of the work and the growth of the staff that will be needed for it,” said San José.

ELA has asked for guarantees that Anoeta's work will not be translated into "precarious, abusive and fraudulent conditions" such as those that have been given so far. "In this sense, it is essential that the City Council of San Sebastian and the Real Sociedad do not look away and look for the guilty outside. Let us not confuse ourselves, they are the real ones responsible for what happened in Anoeta, and they did not in vain start bidding the work under clearly fraudulent conditions, based on miserable prices".

Basic problem in the award of works

Igor San José himself explained to the journal ARGIA that the fundamental problem of the current situation lies in the award of the work itself, in a report on the hollow of these works: “Tendering prices are not to comply with the Workers’ Statute. It is a premeditated tender, it seems that the only objective of public managers is for the Real to pay as little as possible". Pushing the “cheap” exit prices of the award of the works, only two groups were presented to the competition of the first batch of the work: the Temporary Union of Companies Anoeta Zelaia (UTE) and the Protest (to denounce the unfeasibility of the award) Obegisa-Inviza ABEE, with a budget that exceeded 15% of the departure price. Of course, he won the first. Four companies were also present in the second batch.