Another Civil Guard command and two businessmen are being investigated, one of them linked to the plot of the ‘Mediator case’
MADRID, 4 Mar. (EUROPA PRESS) –
A Madrid judge has charged Lieutenant General Pedro Vázquez Jarava, currently in the reserve, for alleged irregularities in the contracting of works for more than a dozen Civil Guard barracks, when he was in charge of the General Subdirectorate of Support from the Civil Guard, according to ‘El Periódico de España’ and legal sources have confirmed to Europa Press.
Specifically, the judge has been investigating Vázquez Jarava and another high command of the Civil Guard since the end of 2021, as well as two companies allegedly involved in said works. She wonders if they have obtained irregular awards for the reconditioning of the barracks and inflated bills for the work, among other issues.
One of the companies involved belongs to Ángel Ramón Tejera de León, alias ‘Mon’, who is linked to the plot of the ‘Mediator case’. The businessman is also a friend of Francisco Espinosa, a retired general of the Civil Guard and who is the only defendant in the extortion plot who is in provisional prison.
According to the head of the Civil Guard Command in Ávila between 2015 and the end of 2017, Carlos Alonso, Vázquez Jarava asked him to hire said company for works “in numerous barracks in the province.” This was declared by Alonso before the Internal Affairs division of the body, according to the aforementioned newspaper.
The investigation comes from criminal proceedings opened in 2019 by the Investigating Court number 2 of Ávila for a crime of embezzlement as a result of a report from the Internal Services of the Civil Guard, which were later forwarded to the courts of Madrid.
As reported by the Superior Court of Justice of Castilla y León (TSJCyL) this Friday, those proceedings were opened due to complaints that warned of “a possible illegal action in a series of contracts for works in barracks”, which would have been inflated and some paid without execute.
The investigating judge took a statement from the then head of the Civil Guard Command of Ávila, a businessman from the Canary Islands, responsible for the companies Angrasurcor S.L. and Solocorcho S.L. –alias ‘Mon’–, and one of his collaborators.
After studying the matter, the Ávila court understood that it was not competent since the highest position allegedly involved and to which the statements made indicated, a lieutenant general of the Civil Guard, had the official headquarters in the General Directorate of Madrid.
According to the lieutenant colonel’s statement, the hiring of the Canarian companies “was determined” by the lieutenant colonel who was then in charge of the General Support Subdirectorate of the Civil Guard, Vázquez Jarava, which “initiated a new investigation that revealed that In 13 headquarters (Murcia, Albacete, Algeciras, Alicante, Badajoz, Castellón, Huelva, Jaén, La Coruña, Santa Cruz de Tenerife and Toledo) the Canarian companies “would have carried out” work “increasing billing and income”.
Therefore, it issued an order in which it agreed to the inhibition in favor of the Senior Court of Madrid for the hearing of all the proceedings. One of those investigated appealed said order first before the court and later before the Provincial Court of Ávila, requesting the file of the case.
The court rejected their claims and the provincial court also dismissed this appeal on the understanding that there were still many procedures to be carried out and because “the competence to issue the final resolution would correspond to a judicial body in Madrid.” Finally, the Court of First Instance and Instruction 2 confirmed the inhibition for the continuation of the investigation in Madrid by the Court of Instruction 3 of the capital.
