Ismael Moreno, the judge of the National Court in charge of the investigation into Kold affairor, asked the Civil Guard to requisition the emails from civil servants who awarded the masks fake in the Balearic Islands and the Canary Islands. Specifically, the instructor requested that copies of the contents of all electronic mailboxes or company files, between January 1, 2020 and July 1, 2020, of Julio Miguel Fusterformer Director General of the Balearic Islands Health Service (IB-Salud), and former Deputy Director of Purchasing and Logistics of the aforementioned organization Antonio Mascaro. The prosecutor in the case requested that this procedure be carried out, which the judge deemed necessary for the investigation.
On September 30, the judge ordered that senior officials of ex-Balearic President Francina Armengol contribute all documentation in your possession regarding the contract with Soluciones de Gestión, the main company investigated in the investigation. Koldo affair. This is a tender for defective masks signed by the previous government of the Balearic Islands for an amount of 3,701,500 euros. The Civil Guard has already entered information on this contract a few days ago July 19 and 21 at the request of the anti-corruption prosecutor’s office, but the judge asks that the seized messages be expanded.
“You must request that a copy of the information in your possession concerning any claim made Management Solutions linked or not to the contract. Once the above has been identified, a copy of the contents of all email boxes or company files is also requested, beginning September 1, 2023 and continuing until the compliance date hereof, of the parties involved in the aforementioned complaint”, it is specified in the order consulted by OKDIARIO in which more information is requested on the masks allocated to the Balearic Islands.
Masks in the Canary Islands
The judge of Koldo affair also askl The Canary Islands Health Service copies the contents of all electronic mailboxes or company files, including from January 1, 2020 to July 1, 2020, of the official Ana Maria Pérez Alfonso. It also requests all documentation on the contracts awarded to Management Solutions, which amount to more than 10 million euros in the case of the Canary Islands.
Diligence regarding masks must be practiced, as in the case of the Balearic Islands, in the presence of the Civil Guard. It is the agents of the Civil Guard Unit attached to the Anti-Corruption and Organized Crime Prosecutor’s Office who will have to carry out the surveillance. Civil servants are obliged to collaborate and if they do not, they could incur the crime of disobedience. They must also keep the actions carried out secret.
The judge explains that this diligence on the Balearic and Canary Islands masks is useful for the discovery of the criminal offense under investigation. Ismael Moreno considers that it is proportionate to the seriousness of the crime and necessary to be able to advance in the investigation, which is followed by crimes of criminal organization, money laundering, corruption, influence peddling and against the public treasury.
Witnesses to the “Koldo affair”
The judge also agreed to summon as a witness the Director General of Coordination and Studies of the State Secretariat for Security, Jose Antonio Rodríguez González and to the authors of the audit report from the Ministry of Transport and Sustainable Mobility concerning the files under investigation. Following the prosecutor’s criteria, Ismael Moreno also agrees to look into the contracts awarded by State Ports, Adif and the Secretary of State for Security.
He also requested that they be present testifies the owner and president of the company Raminatrans SL, Rafael Milesto the Head of Budgets of the Ministry of Transport and Sustainable Mobility, Jorge Méanaas well as to the general secretary and the Council of the National Post and Telegraph Company, Julio Gonzalez Garcia. The instructor thus accedes to the request of the popular accusation Liberum, which deemed it necessary to shed light on the lack of justification in the reception of the masks.
In addition to the information and testimony requirements, the Tax Agency is also required to designate officials to provide legal assistance in determining the payments that could possibly have stopped coming in to Public Treasury Management Solutions and to Víctor de Aldama, the alleged head of Koldo affair. It says the Treasury must investigate the accounts for the 2020 financial year when mask contracts were awarded during the coronavirus pandemic.
