The Prosecutor’s Office and the State Attorney’s Office did not oppose the National Heritage drafting the report
MADRID, 8 Mar. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The investigation that is being followed in the Investigating Court Number 3 of Madrid on alleged irregularities in the contracting of works for more than a dozen Civil Guard barracks has been paralyzed for at least eight months pending the contribution of a expert report.
Legal sources have confirmed to Europa Press that the head of the court, María Isabel Durantez, is trying to clarify whether the amount allocated to the reforms of the Benemérita command posts corresponds to the work carried out and that -although the drafting of said report was ordered by the last year– so far it remains awaiting the conclusions of the experts.
According to a document from the Prosecutor’s Office presented on January 16, to which Europa Press has had access, the expert initially appointed to write the report offered her collaboration to carry out one related to the infrastructures of the province of Ávila, but warned of its “impossibility” to carry out the expert opinion regarding the commands of the rest of the provinces.
Within the framework of that letter, it is clear that neither the State Attorney’s Office nor the Public Ministry objected to the fact that the drafting of the report was left in the hands of the General Directorate of State Heritage.
The report pending to be submitted to the procedure would serve to clarify the works carried out in 13 commands: those of Murcia, Albacete, Algeciras, Alicante, Badajoz, Castellón, Huelva, Jaén, La Coruña, Santa Cruz de Tenerife and Toledo. Lieutenant General of the Civil Guard Pedro Vázquez Jarava, who was in charge of the General Support Subdirectorate of the Civil Guard at the time of the events, is listed as being investigated for the alleged irregularities in the contracting of said reforms.
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. It is being investigated whether they would have obtained irregular awards for the reconditioning of the barracks and inflated invoices for the works, 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.
The investigation that is now being carried out in Madrid 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 Internal Services of the Civil Guard.
As reported by the Superior Court of Justice of Castilla y León, 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 executing.
The examining magistrate of said locality took statements as investigated the then head of the Command of the Civil Guard of Ávila, the businessman from the Canary Islands Tejera de León and a collaborator of the latter. However, after studying the matter, he understood that he was not competent, since the investigated lieutenant general had his official headquarters in the General Directorate of Madrid.
