The Minister of Health, Mónica García, announced the creation of a Observatory against Fraud and Corruption in the health sector, promoted by the National Health System Integrity Law. However, this announcement has rekindled controversy due to its own history, marked by controversy over the collection of Thermal Social Bonus In March 2023, aid for vulnerable and large families. The minister was criticised for receiving the grant despite her financial situation, raising questions about her integrity in fighting fraud. Even more so when, after ensuring that I wouldn’t do it again and that he would return the amount received, he received it again.
The controversy erupted on March 16, 2023, when García publicly accused Enrique Ossoriocouncilor of the Community of Madrid, for having received the same aid – but being a large family and entitled to the benefit -, although he cared little as he severely criticized the politician. But the strangest thing in the story is that a few hours later it was learned that She herself also benefited from this same help.. After leaving the matter alone for several hours and subjected to harsh social criticism, the current Minister of Health and former leader of Más Madrid, Mónica García, had no choice but to admit that it was true that she had received this social bonus for vulnerable familiesbut I wouldn’t do it again.
However, according to the National advertising system for public subsidies and aidOn May 20, 2023, a payment of 214.57 euros was made to Enrique Montañés, ex-husband of the minister, but not at the time the aid was received, since they had not yet divorced.
Apparently, the amount received is less than the 413.65 euros that Mónica García’s family received in 2022 and more than the 195.82 euros obtained for the same aid months before the controversy broke out.
What seems complicated to understand is that with this past, Garcia aims to be a reference in the fight against corruption inside health systemboth at regional and national level.
The main objective of the new observatory is to investigate and denounce bad practices in the health system, from the irregular contracting of services to the inefficient management of public resources. Mónica García, a doctor by profession, has made the defense of public health her main political flag, a flag that, in her personal case, is flown with half-truths.
Misappropriation of public funds, especially those that should be allocated to health, is indecent.
This is why we opened the Observatory against fraud and corruption in the health sector and promoted the law on the integrity of the national health system. pic.twitter.com/ipvq5HSw9A
– Monica Garcia (@Monica_Garcia_G) September 13, 2024
The €13,000 he was to return
As if that were not enough, Monica Garcia recently attacked the Madrid president’s boyfriend again, Isabel Diaz Ayusobecause of the issue of masks and despite ignorance of his own scandals, he brings to his daily populism that of, defame that something will remain and therefore they will not remember you.
And this is not the first time that Mónica García, movements that attract attention are discovered in her stories. It should be remembered that already in 2021, the leader of Más Madrid had to return the sum of 13,000 euros that she had received irregularly from the Madrid Assembly while she was on sick leave. At the time, the left-wing leader justified these accusations by calling them an “administrative error”, when, as today, the accusations against her were becoming clear.
The opposition leader in Ayuso Community of Madrid changed his billing regime during a sick leave as an anesthesiologist at October 12 Hospital due to a broken elbow. Before her leave, García had a salary of 1,246.27 euros per month as a part-time worker, plus a supplement of 1,486.69 for her status as deputy spokesperson for Más Madrid. What he did during his leave was vary his diet irregularly, recording his activity in theat the Madrid Assembly as a single dedication, so that His salary thus increased to 3,573.53. Since this single dedication was not such and she had to admit it herself, García had to end up returning the 13,000 euros that she had collected irregularly.
He also hid a plot of land in Cercedilla
The leader of Más Madrid, Mónica García, hid in her declaration of assets to the Assembly of the Community of Madrid at the end of 2021 that she was the owner of a plot of land of 1,210.5 square meters in the Madrid municipality of Cercedilla.
Thus, in the Land Registry of San Lorenzo de El Escorial, it was recorded that García owned 22.22% of the full ownership of this land by inheritance title and 11.11% of its bare ownership. However, the policy He did not include it in his declaration of assets to the Regional Chamber.
What then appeared was that it was the bare ownership of two housesone of them in the Madrid municipality of Retiro and the other in the municipality of Cercedilla, inherited from their mother with their brothers and sisters, as well as 117,580 euros savings spread across three checking accounts, two of which are shared.
