The leader of the secessionist historians received 6 million from the Government in two years

The leader of the pro-independence historians is, in fact, the common link in a 'pool' of companies that, as a whole, has taken a large handful of millions of euros.

A. Fernández. Barcelona

03/18/2019 05:00 - Updated: 03/18/2019 21:32

On October 17, 2018, the Department of Labor of the Generalitat awarded the allocation of a contract for the monitoring of activities developed by the General Directorate of Civic Action. The contract was divided into 24 lots, with a cost of 3.8 million euros. Ten of these contracts were taken by the companies Jan BCS and Tasca Serveis d'Animació for an amount of almost 1.9 million euros (Jan BCS took 1,080,000 euros and Tasca, 807,000 euros).


 Albert Codinas i Poch

It happens that the registered office of Tasca Serveis d'Animació is the same as the one for the Fundació Institut Nova Història. That is to say, the entity that gives shelter to the pseudo-historians (who are now called 'researchers') who disseminate the most incredible theories about the greatness of the Catalan nation: they maintain that history has been falsified by Castile, while claiming that Cristóbal Colón, Miguel de Cervantes, Miguel Servet, Saint Teresa of Jesus, Francisco Pizarro, Leonardo da Vinci or William Shakespeare, among others, were Catalans. Erasmus of Rotterdam was not satisfied with that: he was also, in fact, a son of Columbus. Of the Columbus born in the old town of Barcelona, of course.


Behind Tasca is Albert Codinas Poch. And behind Jan BCS, too: he is the sole administrator of both companies. And not only that: he acts at the same time as president of the INH Foundation, as a member of the board of the pro-sovereignty Fundació Catalunya Estat and as a member of the platform Sobirania i Justícia. He was also linked to the radical Cercle Català de Negocis (CCN) and the Via Fora! Platform, which promotes independence.

His supremacist discourse of clear contempt for everything that sounds like Castilian became crystal clear in words spoken in 2015, on the occasion of the Joan Coromines Awards: "Now we know that at the end of the 15th century, Castile was the poorest kingdom of Europe and that it did not reach a population of two million inhabitants, even though in our schools we repeat their lies of exaggeration to justify themselves as great and powerful (...) With a lot of work, two or three professors could be found in the university to be proficient in Latin and many were able to speak barbarously only in Spanish. Do you know what university I'm talking about? Of course, of that of Salamanca, at the end of the XV century". And then he stirred up: "Spain was an old Castilian aspiration - it still is - but in 1572 it was a complex reality with some ports in Seville and Cádiz full of officials and navigators of the Catalan Crown, established with their families, following the House of Trade". He dares to go as far as stating that many Andalusians do not pronounce the z well ("as in all of Latin America") because of the influence of the Catalans, who had "conquered and partially repopulated with Catalan-speaking people  Granada, part of Almeria and part of Malaga".

The assault on the Chambers of Commerce

A couple of weeks ago, Codinas was the man who presented, along with Elisenda Paluzie, president of the ANC, the pro-independence candidacy that wants to raid the Catalan Chambers of Commerce next month. But, for now, what they really seem to dominate is the money tap, because the millions received last fall are only a small part of what they receive from the public treasury.


Albert Codina was linked to the radical Cercle Català de Negocis (CCN) and the platform Via Fora!, which promotes independence.

And this is because the Catalan administrations treat these dealers with delicacy. In addition to the aforementioned contracts with the Labor Department, the Catalan Agency for Development Cooperation (ACCD) also has an open line of up to 200,000 euros for the "management, organization, invigoration, coordination, execution and evaluation of the activities of the ACCD". The contract to spend that money was awarded to Airun Servicios Culturales on March 5, 2018, when this company obtained 100 points out of 100, at a distance from the other eight contestants. It happens again that Codinas is another of the shareholders of this company, of which he was sole administrator until March 27, 2015.

On the other hand, the company carries out various activities: from taking the coordination of the ACCD to the logistics and safety of municipal activities in the parks of Barcelona, going through the social support to people of occupational work programs or, even, the "technical support to the Municipal Band of Barcelona", a contract awarded in August 2018 for a total amount of 239,580 euros.

In 2009, Codinas appeared as financial director of Airun. "We do not receive subsidies and we have a very small commercial area. The few clients we have are large entities. At the same time, our turnover has multiplied by six in six years". But what he had billed until then was little less than a tip compared to the business career developed over time.

Contracts and businesses

The leader of the pro-independence historians is, in fact, the common link in a 'pool' of companies that, as a whole, has taken a large handful of millions of euros from the Administration in recent years. These companies are the already mentioned Jan BCS, Tasca or Airun, but there are also Lart Saber Comunicar (which also has its headquarters in the INH Foundation) and another with a curious name: Asac Negocis SL, created by Codinas in 2014 with Alejandro Sánchez Nofre, member also of the board of the Fundació Catalunya Estat. Its name, which could be translated freely into Spanish as Negocios a Saco (Business without control), says it all and seems to be a sarcastic warning of the ultimate purpose of the 'pool', a linguistic caper similar to the famous Paquí Pallá SL (Back and forth) of the PP's Aguirre’s plot. If the Popular Party people in Madrid had their own tap, the pro-independence Catalans would not be less. Sánchez Nofre and other Codinas’ partners also appear in the Aktes Serveis Integrals and Ideafix Team companies, all of them with public contracts.

According to data from the Barcelona City Council, only from the managements and the districts, the Airun company obtained in 2017 a total of 33 contracts

According to data from the Barcelona City Council (wherefrom more money is coming in these years), only from the managements and the districts, the Airun company obtained, in 2017, a total of 33 contracts for an amount of 700,790.95 euros, while Tasca Serveis d'Animació won 20 contracts worth 650,563 euros, Jan BCS won six awards for 76,402 euros and Ideafix Team won another 12 contracts worth 120,563 euros. That is, 1.5 million euros of municipal funds.

But, according to the documentation to which this newspaper has had access, the contracts were much higher: on March 29 of that year, Airun obtained more than 400,000 euros in a contract from the municipal team of Ada Colau to prepare "housing reports with the purpose of promoting the employment of people at risk of exclusion", and another 302,710 euros for "the design, production and support to the organization for sporting events and sports promotion events scheduled by the Institut Barcelona Esports". With both, it already exceeds the figure cited by the consistory, which means that if the contracts awarded by the central services are accounted for, the amount of public aid to the pool grows exponentially.


The aforementioned documentation certifies that, only in the last two years, Airun took 2.3 million euros from the public coffers, while Tasca pocketed 1.9 million euros and Jan BCS received 1.7 million euros if the contracts of all administrations are included. To these almost six million must be added the contracts of Ideafix. In addition, as this newspaper has been able to verify, Aktes Serveis Integrals and Asac Negocis obtained from the municipality of Barcelona several smaller contracts in 2018 worth several tens of thousands of euros. The tasks are perfectly organized so that some companies work more with the Autonomous Administration and others with local administrations. Of what there is no doubt is that the oiling of the machinery of the pro-independence movement, at this time, is going through the stage of its greatest splendor.

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