Investigations for the purchase of masks against covid already exceed ten

  • The most advanced is the one related to the millionaire commissions paid by the Madrid City Council for the purchase of material

  • Two prosecutors, Anticorruption and the European, have open proceedings for the contract charged by Díaz Ayuso’s brother

The investigations by contracts signed by the different administrations to fight against covid at the beginning of the pandemic they already exceed ten, although not all are equally advanced. The The most incipient ones were opened this Friday by the Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office and in the most advanced they will declare before the judge this MondayThe businessmen Luis Medina and Alberto Luceño for the contract they signed with the Madrid City Council.

The cause corresponding to contract signed by the Madrid City Council it was investigated in Anticorruption for almost 17 months until it became a complaint. She was admitted for processing by the head of the Court of Instruction number 47 of Madrid on April 7. This Monday, Medina and Luceño will have their first opportunity to deny before Judge Adolfo Carretero the crimes they are accused of: Aggravated fraud, falsehood, money laundering and concealment of assets.

In the Court number 26 of Madrid they are sued three high officials of the Ministry of Health when Salvador Illa was in charge, but not at the request of the prosecutor, but of Vox. In addition, number 30 is considering reopening another case for another alleged scam, this one denounced by the mayor of Madrid, José Luis Martínez-Almeida, for 1.2 million euros to buy half a million masks to an intermediary who claimed to live in New York. Among the documentation that he sent to the Prosecutor’s Office is a statement from the Municipal Police that concludes that the citizen Philippe Haig Solomon, on behalf of the consulting firm Sinclair and Wilde, provided false information about the quality of the products. Unable to locate him, the procedure was archived, but legal sources have indicated that the judicial police have found another identity that could allow him to be reached.

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Among all the tax proceedings (with which the public ministry determines whether or not there are sufficient indications of a crime to sue in court) those related to the contract by which the brother of the Madrid president, Isabel Diaz Ayuso, charged a commission for selling masks to the Administration chaired by his sister. They are in the hands of the Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office, which believes that the facts may constitute crimes of Influence peddling and false documents and, from the European Public Prosecutor’s Office, which opened its own proceedings for embezzlement of European funds and bribery.

To them we must add the seven open this Friday for Anticorruption for 13 contracts that the central government awarded to seven companies for the acquisition of medical supplies during the pandemic. The investigation begins after the deputy and spokesman for the Popular Parliamentary Group in the Madrid Assembly, Alfonso Serrano, filed a complaint for alleged irregularities in several emergency contracts formalized by the General State Administration, among which are those granted to three companies that the PP links to the vice president of the Government, Nadia Calvinoand the former ministers Salvador Illa and Jose Luis Abalos.

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