The deputy mayor of Valencia, the socialist Sandra Gómez, accuses the government of the Alicante capital of having contracted with a company involved in the alleged corrupt plot, while the bipartisan deny any type of contractual relationship and demand a rectification
The tentacles of “Mediator case” arrive in Alicante. After the PP and Citizens they asked the Valencian generalitat and to several town halls governed by the left in the Community, including that of Valencia, information on the “finger contracts“with companies linked to the new scandal of alleged corruption originating in the Canary Islands that for now dots the PSOE charges, a former general of the Civil Guard and businessmenthe Deputy Mayor of Valencia and PSPV candidate for Mayor, Sandra Gómez, The focus has diverted this Wednesday, pointing to the Alicante City Council, led by the bipartisan PP and Ciudadanos.
Gómez has thus responded to the information provided by the PP, which has denounced that the Valencia City Council, governed by Compromís and the PSPV-PSOE, contracted with one of the drone companies linked to the plot during the years 2021 and 2022. Specifically, the Valencian popular group has indicated that it was awarded, by the Police and Fire Department, the purchase of drones, batteries and propellers in three contracts, one of about 14,000 euros, another of 2,300 and a third of 1,100 euros .
In response to this information, The socialist Gómez has assured that Alicante also contracted with the same company “without any type of transparency” since “we have not been able to have access to that contract” and about which she has asked for explanations, according to the agency Europa Press.
The mayor of Valencia has thus alluded, in relation to Alicante, to a publication of the company ASD Drones (Drones Advice and Services), based in Paterna (Valencia), in which firefighters from the Fire Prevention and Extinction and Rescue Service of the city of Alicante (Speis) leave. “ASD Drones collaborates with Firefighters and Local Police of Alicante in the Bonfires of San Juan with UAS and Location Systems“, indicates the message published on June 23, 2022.
From the Alicante City Council they have denied this Wednesday any direct link with that company, related to the alleged corruption plot, ensuring that the drones were purchased through a public tender, which was awarded to another company (Mi Primer Dron), the July 28, 2022. Two offers were submitted to this contest, the one that was awarded the award for 95,800 euros and a second proposal, which was excluded. for presenting a reckless low offer that, according to the technicians, he did not justify. This is the joint venture formed by Precisión aerea innovación y nuevas tecnologías and DDQ Kias Eventos, which offered 77,400 euros.
“There are no contracts”
He Councilor for Security of the Alicante City Council, José Ramón González (PP), has demanded that the deputy mayor of Valencia “immediately rectify her false accusations” about the “non-existent” contractual relationship of the Alicante town hall with a company linked to the scandal of the plot of the so-called “Mediator case”. At the same time, González has indicated that the vice mayor and socialist candidate for mayor of Valencia “cannot find the alleged contracts to which she alludes with the company ASD [Asesoramiento y Servicios de Drones] because they simply don’t exist”. “His is an obvious and irresponsible slip-up, inappropriate for someone called to carry out such high responsibility,” added the popular, who pointed out that the local government is going to “defend with total forcefulness the honesty and transparency of the management and the repute and good name of the Alicante City Council& rdquor ;.The purpose of the public contract was the acquisition of the supplies and provision of the necessary services to provide the Umant (Unmanned Aerial Media Unit) with the SPEIS of the Alicante City Council, with the supply of two complete RPAS (drones) teams, including auxiliary material, together with services eight aeronautical medical certifications, eight drone pilot qualifications (licenses) of up to 5 kilos, eight drone pilot qualifications (licenses) of up to 15 kilos, eight aeronautical radio operator qualifications, sixty hours a year for advice, consultancy, presentation, processing and updating of the necessary aeronautical documentation (AESA), together with sixty hours per year for training, training and maintenance, including the control and registration of said training.
The dates of the image of the company linked to the plot with the Alicante firefighters and of the award of the contract to another companyHowever, they do not add up, since the visit, on June 23, was prior to the formalization of the contract, on July 28. From the bipartisan, consulted by this newspaper, they have added that “As often happens, the winning company, Mi Primer Drone, came to test the material from its supplier ASD a few days before the award was formalized.“.