The Prosecutor’s Office at the Court of Auditors has agreed to close the investigation which it opened automatically following the conclusions of the report of the Chamber of Auditors on contracts carried out by the SAS by emergency means during the year 2020, in the midst of a pandemic.
The decision comes after opening an official investigation following the audit report from the Chamber of Auditors on the entire SAS contract.
The latest report from the Chamber of Auditors on SAS contracts refers to files carried out by emergency means during the pandemic, in 2020. The analysis detected inappropriate use of procedures in several files due to a lack of justification for urgency or problems in the processing or certification of expenses.
Following this report made public last July, the Court of Auditors automatically, he detected that there could be an “accounting responsibility” of the Autonomous Administration in several of the six notes taken by the Chamber of Accounts on the contracts signed in 2020. For this reason, last September it notified the Junta de Andalucía of the opening of an investigation.
However, after having read all the notes taken by the Chamber of Auditors and the contracts to which it refers, The Prosecutor’s Office of the Court of Auditors excludes the existence of accounting responsibilities. Thus, on October 20, it notified the legal services of the Junta de Andalucía of its decision to archive the file after having detected no irregularities.
He The archives of this investigation were one of the arguments of the president of the Junta de Andalucía, Juanma Moreno.to answer questions from opposition groups, the most topical element of which was the decision of the anti-corruption prosecutor’s office to investigate the contracts reported by the PSOE. However, none of the opposition groups, not even the general secretary of the Andalusian Socialists, Juan Espadas, made any reference to the SAS contracts.
The report of the Chamber of Auditors andThis is one of the elements incorporated in the PSOE’s public complaint. on possible irregularities in emergency contracts and minor contracts of the SAS, although it is not the only one. In fact, the socialist complaint mainly concerns subsequent contracts, from 2021.
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