PALMA, 2 May. (EUROPA PRESS) –
A Palma Court has agreed to initiate preliminary proceedings for the PSIB’s complaint against the current director of the Balearic Islands Health Service (IbSalut), Javier Ureña, for waiving the claim against the company in the Koldo case.
In an order to which Europa Press has had access, Judge Antonio Garcías initiates preliminary proceedings for the complaint filed by the socialist party for possible crimes of administrative prevarication, embezzlement of public funds and influence peddling.
The complaint is also directed against the company Soluciones de Gestión y Apoyo Empresarial SL and its administrator, Íñigo Rotaeche, investigated by the National Court in the Koldo case. The judge transfers the proceedings to the Prosecutor’s Office for a ruling, as ‘ÚItima hora’ had anticipated.
The PSIB accuses Ureña of constructing, with the knowledge of the president of the Government, Marga Prohens, and the rest of the regional Executive, a file to hide the expiration of the claim to the company for the quality of the masks.
The PSIB complaint attributes Ureña to having deliberately allowed the expiration of the file “for the clear benefit of the company and its participants”, urging a new annulment file “as a smokescreen.”
The PSIB brief includes wiretapping of those investigated in the Koldo case, where the alleged mastermind of the plot, Carlos Cueto, informed Rotaeche that the Balearic Islands “were not going to continue with the claim for the masks.” The AN’s investigations point to alleged maneuvers by Koldo to do so.
The expiration of the file has become the main battlehorse between PP and PSIB in the Islands. The resolution notifying the claim to the company gives a period of three months and that is what those investigated cling to in their conversations when they talk about the Community not going to continue with the claim.
The current IbSalut team, for its part, assures that according to the regulations the deadline would be eight months and that therefore it would still be within the deadline, attributing the reference to three months to a material “error.” In any case, the administration failed to respond to the allegations presented by the company in November.
The case came to light in February with the arrest of José Luis Ábalos’ former advisor, and in March IbSalut withdrew that claim because it considered it unviable due to a document from the previous team that endorsed the quality of the shipment. At the same time, a new file was initiated to declare the contract void from its origin and claim the total amount, 3.7 million euros. The company has presented allegations, as confirmed by Ibsalut sources.
