Three companies implicated in the “Blue Apple” bribery scandal got a helping hand from former president Juan Carloc Varela who interceded in their favor to obtain contracts with the State at the end of his term.

A conversation between Varela and his then Minister of the Presidency, Jorge González, filtered by the “Varelaleaks” digital site, reveals that Varela pushed for González to provide contracts to Meco, Roda, REC Engineering and Cusa  a

Several chats between Varela and Gónzalez make it clear that the former president influenced the granting of contracts to companies considered "close" at the end of his term in office reports La Prensa.

In October 2018, and the Executive finalized the plan to for projects that would be executed with the $300 million product of the tax exemption that the National Assembly would approve.

On October 5, , three days before the National Assembly approved in the third debate the bill that gave the green light to raise the fiscal deficit, the then-president made a request to González, head of the Ministry of the Presidency, and the man who handled priority works of the Executive to  push projects of insiders

The contractors for whom Varela interceded were: Carlos Cerda, president of Constructora Meco, a Costa Rican capital company that in the past government won contracts close to $ 1,5 billion.; Rogelio Alemán, of Constructora Urbana, SA (Cusa), the partner of Odebrecht in one of the flagship projects of the last administration: the urban renewal of Colón, for  $635 million; Juan Rodríguez, president of Constructora Rosa, a company that also won contracts totaling millions during the last government. And Eduardo Di Bello, from REC Engineering, another of the companies that were awarded multi-million dollar direct contracts by the Varela government.

Cerda, Rodríguez and Di Bello, , have something in common: they were three of the businessmen who admitted to having paid bribes to Blue Apple Services, Inc., allegedly in exchange for expediting procedures and disbursements for progress of work in the government of Ricardo Martinelli (2009-2014). All reached collaboration agreements  with the Special Anti-Corruption Office of the Public Prosecutor

The judicial case was also among Varela's conversations with the Attorney General,  Kenia Porcell. Says La Prensa.

Varela blames  Ricardo Martinell for being responsible for the site that leaked his communications. “Beyond the debate of the content of the conversations, what is clear is the direct intervention of the former communications of a president and the manipulation of the information by an organization led by former president Martinelli, using the equipment that was bought in his time , with funds of corruption, called Pegasus ”, said Varela.

Jorge González was Varela's trusted man. He was secretary of Goals, vice- minister of Housing; later he was spokesman of the Presidency; then vice- minister of the Presidency and later became a minister.

Today he is ta director of the Panama Canal Authority.