The payments without a contract that Francis Puig's company received from the City Council of Morella (Castellón) reach the period in which his brother Ximo Puig was mayor of this town. This directly compromises the president of the Generalitat Valenciana and forces him to offer detailed explanations before the suspicion of nepotism.

The Law on Public Sector Contracts, reformed in 2019, protects as minor contracts those of less than 15,000 euros when they correspond to services.