The Court of Instruction number 13 of Seville has agreed to process the complaint filed by the Andalusian PSOE against the government of Juan Manuel Moreno for alleged embezzlement and prevarication in the handpicked allocation of 243 million to private clinics – without advertising or competition – by accepting the emergency procurement procedure permitted by the central government to accelerate the health response to the pandemic.
The order, announced by Cadena SER and confirmed by this newspaper, represents the opening of the first judicial investigation against the Moreno government, after six years in power, and part of the complaint filed by the team of Juan Espadas, recorded in court last June. 20.
On March 12, 2023, elDiario.es Andalucía exclusively announced that the emergency contracts of the Andalusian Health Service (SAS) with private clinics were still in force – “until June 30, 2023” – two years after the repeal of the extraordinary legal framework. enabled by the Central Executive to deal with the pandemic. Twenty-four hours later, the Andalusian executive was quick to announce that it would cancel this system of contracts, after having approved four consecutive extensions which, in two years, tripled the expenditure initially approved for attributions sorted on the component, from 70 to 243 million.
For months, the socialists have announced the filing of a complaint against free contracts within the SAS and mock journalists when they ask them when they will do it. The reality is that, on the recommendation of their lawyers, they kept secret a complaint already registered three months ago.
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