A NEW scandal has hit Andalucia with quite a few high-profile arrests over Covid-era corruption being made throughout the area.
The president of the Almeria provincial council, Javier Aureliano Garcia, its vp, Fernando Gimenez, and the mayor of Fines, Rodrigo Sanchez, have all been arrested by the Guardia Civil for alleged irregular contract practices.
These arrests come amid the ‘Mascarillas’ case, an investigation that was already Gimenez and Sanchez and is analyzing the contracts for the provision of sanitary materials processed in the course of the pandemic.
The case is working with a file of contracts value 2.3 million and seeks to find out whether or not the procurement of medical provides in the course of the pandemic have been authorized or whether or not they concerned bribery and corruption.
A gaggle chat referred to as ‘Naranjito’ is a main piece of proof as a result of it options conversations between Garcia, Gimenez, and a 3rd particular person about masks associated points.
Upon seeing this, and different proof, the case’s decide has ordered dwelling and workplace searches of a few of the arrested people.
Additionally, the decide has requested entry to their personal communications and asset freezing in order that they cannot promote their properties or automobiles.
The president of the Andalucia Junta and the Andalucian department of the Partido Popular (PP), Juanma Moreno confirmed that he had no extra details about the arrest of the aforementioned people – in actual fact he stated he discovered concerning the arrests by way of the media who broke the information early yesterday morning.
For now, the area awaits readability from the courts which can decide whether or not the Covid-era contracts have been administrative errors or part of a broader scheme of corruption.
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