In the file provided by Palomino there is no document that reflects the previous contacts or the terms of the agreement.
PALMA, 29 Feb. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The Central Operational Unit (UCO) of the Civil Guard warns in a report that the Koldo plot contract with the Balearic Health Service (IbSalut) violated the law because it was executed before being formalized.
This is stated in a report prepared in September where the request made in July to IbSalut to provide all available information on the supply of masks with Soluciones de Gestión y Apoyo a Empresas SL, worth 3.7 million euros, is developed.
The Civil Guard agents appeared at the IbSalut headquarters in Palma on July 19, 2022, and were attended to by the then Director of Management and Budgets, Manuel Palomino.
After analyzing the documentation, the Civil Guard unit attached to the Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office highlights the fact that no document was found that reflected the previous contacts with the company to finalize the contracts: “Nor has any contract or agreement signed between the parties in which the terms of development of the service are specified or those responsible are named”.
In this sense, the Civil Guard “does not know how and which natural persons were the ones who created the agreements” and how the quantities of masks and the amount per unit were determined.
In fact, the file did mention that it was the company that contacted IbSalut to “advise that they had a plane full of FFP2 masks”, but the documentation delivered to the Civil Guard does not include “any communication between the parts”.
In this regard, it should be noted that, this Thursday, the current director of IbSalut, Javier Ureña, stated that there is an email sent by the owner of the company, Íñigo Rotaeche – one of those investigated – to a corporate address and another personal address. by Manuel Palomino. It appears from the company’s allegations last November that there was a previous telephone conversation.
But above all, the UCO considers it striking that the contract was executed before the emergency processing was declared, which was done in May when the masks had already been received a few days before.
The report considers this “indicative that the award would be pre-awarded, something that would not be allowed in public procurement, not even in emergency processing.”
The unit recognizes that emergency processing makes the requirements more flexible and allows the formalization process to be dispensed with “at first”, but considers that it would not cover acting without “carrying out the slightest procedure before starting the contracted activity.” Furthermore, it does not exclude that the contract may subsequently be formalized in writing by publishing the details.
This Thursday Ureña explained the chronology of the file and clarified that, apparently, the shipment was originally destined for another administration, which for unknown reasons did not keep it.
Thus, Ureña launched that “when they offer the plane’s cargo, it is either leaving or is already in the air, because it arrives in hours to the Balearic Islands via Madrid”: the email to Palomino is from April 25, with the subject ‘Content plane 04/26/2020 KN95’, and the masks passed customs in Palma on the 27th.