The investigation by alleged manipulations and bribes in the concession of works contracts In the Civil Guard barracks, the first dismissal has been made since the principal under investigation, Lieutenant General, was sent into retirement Pedro Jarava. On the night of this Wednesday, the Secretary of State for Security, Raphael Perezhas removed from the command over the Civil Guard of Tenerife the colonel Jose Maria Storehead of that Canarian Command.
The Interior’s reaction is concentrated in the territorial area in which an important part of the three million euros was granted that up to now have been detected as allegedly embezzled in favor of the Lanzarote builder Angel Ramon Tejera, Monin irregular concessions promoted by the lieutenant general and obeyed by commanders of 13 commands of the armed institute.
Civil Guard sources refer the ‘Cuarteles case’ and the Internal Affairs investigation of the Corps as the reason for termination. “Only reason -they emphasize-; the cessation has nothing to do with Mediator”. They refer to the corrupt plot from which this case derives, for which the general of the Civil Guard is in jail Francis Espinosa, and in whose summary the builder Tejera is cited, without accusation for the moment.
The decision to dismiss Colonel Tienda has been made, these sources indicate, following a proposal by the Chief General of the Canary Islands Zone, Juan Hernández Mosquera, ratified this afternoon by the general director of the armed institute, Maria Gamez.
Interior has resorted to the argument of the loss of confidence, provided for in the internal regulations of the Corps. Sources from the Benemérita indicate to this newspaper that not only has the investigation carried out by Internal Affairs on the supposedly irregular works been weighing; has also been assessed impact that on “the operation of the command” are having the revelations that The province and other newspapers of Prensa Ibérica are doing about the case.
“A chief of command must exercise command and leadership and be an example for their subordinates and for the society they serve”, the aforementioned sources have explained. They explain that in Store there were “special circumstances”, based on their personal relationship with Mon Tejerawhich have generated “distrust of their work” among their guards.
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The Lanzarote builder was nicknamed “el alférez” by the guards active on the islands between 2015 and 2017. the naturalness with which he appeared by the command of Tenerife, always accompanied by officers. Of 193 works concessions investigated as irregular by the Internal Affairs section of the Civil Guard, Tenerife accumulates 47, with a total value of 927,499 euros. There are also works for more than 256,000 euros that were activated from the General Directorate of the Civil Guard and its central Headquarters for Economic Affairs.
Of the 13 headquarters investigated by the Civil Guard itself, Tenerife is the one that had the most deals with the builder, and systematically without requesting other budgets from the competition.
Among the conclusions of an Internal Affairs report submitted to the judicial authority to which this newspaper has had access, it is indicated: “It is observed that on most occasions, a single offer is requested” and “when market prospecting is carried out to determine the most economical offer for the interests of the State, it is aimed at companies that, despite having different domiciles and trade names, are owned as partners, managed and owned by the same people”. Ángel Ramón Tejera always appears on the property.
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The works awarded were for reforms and repairs in 21 barracks houses in Santa Cruz de Tenerife (11), La Palma (5), La Gomera (4) and El Hierro (1). The Civil Guard has detected eight cases in which “any of the invoiced work units have not been executed”and ten cases in which the work was not finished.
In two other cases, Internal Affairs has received information about “deficient execution”, and in another two “the number of work units is oversized“; that is, the pocket of public money consisted in the fact that the Mon Tejera companies would have charged for painting many more meters than were actually painted, or demolishing and building many more meters of wall than were actually worked by their workers.