Since the “Cuarteles case” is being investigated, an internal order orders the armed institute to be extremely vigilant against fraud in the contracts
It had been a little over a month since the name of the lieutenant general He had arrived at an investigative court in Madrid when a striking internal order was distributed to the Civil Guard commands. It was issued by the Support Command, the general sub-directorate that Jarava had governed. It is instruction 1/2022. Its introduction justifies: “The different reports and recommendations of the different internal and external control bodies have made necessary the approval, by this Headquarters, of this new Instruction for the management of minor contracts in the Civil Guard & rdquor ;.
A judicial investigation into this management of minor contracts was already underway. An order that once would have been considered redundant or unnecessary now tries to close the way to scams, bites, armholes and embezzlementand orders extreme control of the contracting of works.
More euphemistically, its text says that it is about “promoting and improving the application of the objectives of budgetary discipline and transparency in the field of the Civil Guard & rdquor ;.
pulse in the dome
There was talk of transparency in works and supply contracts in 2017, the last year of Jarava’s career, in an internal pulse of the Secretary of State for Security with the lieutenant general. “We saw things that we did not like,” the then Secretary of State, the last of the PP government, told this newspaper. Jose Antonio Nieto-. There were lax procedures. It did not seem to us that there was a transparent method & rdquor ;.
In the spring and September of 2017 -report sources from the Interior team at the time-, the Secretary of State had requested reforms in the Support Command of the Civil Guard: that “habits be changed or the person in charge be dismissed”, clarifies Nieto which he demanded then.
An anonymous complaint, as this newspaper has already advanced, put the Internal Affairs of the Civil Guard on the track of the falsehoods and bribery that are now being reviewed in the Cuarteles case. It was in May 2018, when the stage of the Minister of the Interior Juan Ignacio Zoido was about to end. Other complaints without a sender had already arrived at the Secretary of State for Security. Some also pointed to Lieutenant General Jarava for alleged irregularities in the provisioning of ships of the Civil Guard. An internal review ruled them out.
The pulse for Jarava, the man to whom the previous minister, Jorge Fernandez Dayz, had awarded the Cross of Merit of the Civil Guard, ended as the leadership of the Corps defended: that the noise of a dismissal with a disciplinary file would not be necessary when his retirement was already so close. December 19, 2017 swore flag at the College of Young Guards from Valdemoro (Madrid), in a farewell ceremony; a month later his dismissal due to “retirement & rdquor; he appeared in the BOE signed by Zoido.
But before the farewell in Valdemoro the waters had stirred in the Generalate of the Civil Guard. On December 7, he promoted a general to lieutenant general for the first time without a new predetermined position. It was the case of Ángel Gozalo, the head of the armed institute that Catalonia had commanded during the convulsive outbreak of the process.
Five months later it was found that Gozalo was not only given the maximum number of stars to command Catalonia; Interior reserved it for put order in the Support Command. After the Rajoy government fell in the motion of no confidence, the new minister Marlaska He reaffirmed Gozalo in office.
Orders from the Canarian builder Ángel Ramón ‘Mon’ Tejera fell from their maximum peak to zero in April 2019. It was not put in writing, but it was no longer well received in commands. Except in Tenerife.
At the beginning of 2019, another internal orderprior to 1/2022 and this time with Gozalo in charge of the Support Command, he ordered the vigilance against picaresque and the temptations of contractors.
mouse bills
“Too big, too extensive,” sums up a civil Interior executive when this newspaper asks him how the accounting inspection of a ministry was able to swallow the goals of Jarava and Tejera . “Too big and too extensive & rdquor ;, he says to explain why the Delegate Treasury Intervention in the Interior cannot centralize control of each expense in the Civil Guard buildings.
In 2017, the final year of his career, Lieutenant General Jarava ruled a real estate emporium of 2,382 barracks and barrack-houses throughout Spain, not counting other facilities: garages, corrals, abandoned buildings, stables, academies, wharves, workshops, customer service offices and sentry boxes of all kinds that, despite the hundreds of references removed from records for safetyd, occupy an endless Excel. It would be even more so if you added all the patrol cars, 4×4 vehicles, helicopters and boats that have to be supplied and maintained.
In 2016, the year in which Tejera quadrupled its billing with the Civil Guard, the papers sent by the barracks to the command posts, and these to the area headquarters, and these to the General Directorate were mechanically endorsed in the Interior. Guzmán el Bueno street in Madrid.
He regulation ‘Procedures of Works’ of the Civil Guard Quartering Service orders that in the invoices sent by each unit of the Benemérita “The acceptance of the work must be reflected& rdquor; (Precisely the process of sealing and signing for which commanders and lieutenant colonels are now being investigated in, at least, the commanderies of Ávila, Tenerife and Alicante).
But this vigilance is special in large contracts of the “firm” class, not so much in the retail of minor works, many of no more than 5,000 euros, whose invoices slipped like mice between the large spending chapters.
The Interior Intervention, then as today, works in the Coordination and Studies Cabinet. In front was a general of the Civil Guard, Juan Hernandez Mosquerawho today is the head of the Canary Islands Zone who has executed the dismissal of Lieutenant Colonel José María Tienda because the Barracks case already had an impact on his ability to command over the Tenerife Command, the one that commissioned the most works to Mon Tejera.
The green and blue zipper is important in Interior. As the head of Coordination was a civil guard, a Police station operated in the Intervention, Immaculate Soto. And six overwhelmed officials, recall witnesses from that time.
In the end it was not the Intervention but an anonymous person that started the investigations. The guards who, before wearing the uniform, wore mason’s overalls they receive the ñapas in their barracks more than the Intervention of the commands, a position that Army officers cover by applying for vacant positions.
Operators without tools, walls with a single coat of new paint, walls that have been chipped but not chipped, doors with patches of plaster and paint on top, gas meters placed in bedrooms because the pipe hole that the contractor has made does not allow them to be carried to the kitchen… those base guards they realized the botch more than the officers who are now being investigated by Internal Affairs, on suspicion of document falsification, in the Cuarteles case.