A company owned by the former Director General of Housing, Carlos Mazón, has won a prize from the Generalitat Valenciana of 1.2 million euros as part of the thermal spa program. This is the family business Agrupación de Balnearios de Villavieja SL, in which Ana Isabel Caballer Almela has a stake worth 28,800 euros, according to her file on the Transparency Portal. Caballer terminated her position as director-general on August 4, after another directorate-general in the Department of Social Services, Equality and Housing, of which Caballer was a senior official, had already started the appeal process of offers, negotiated without advertising or urgent processing. the company opted.
The announcement of the award indicates that the Agrupación de Balnearios de Villavieja SL presented the most advantageous proposal and the “best quality-price ratio” in relation to the criteria of the department headed by the popular Susana Camarero.
Caballer left 4,000 applicants without housing assistance by 2023. The Consell de Mazón, as reported in this newspaper, recognized that it did not devote a single euro to housing assistance, hiding behind “l ‘exhaustion’ of funding from the public budget line. accounts of the Generalitat Valenciana to participate in the program. At the end of last August, the resignation of the general director was announced, who claimed that she was leaving to take care of her businesses. “We have projects underway and about to be developed. Political management requires you to be one hundred percent, that is why, after evaluating it, I decided to give way to another person,” he said.
The application procedure, for which the General Directorate of Dependency and Elderly People was responsible, began two months before his resignation. The first members of the hiring table were appointed on June 7. On June 21, the Department of Social Services, Equality and Housing published the award documents, with an overall value of €11.6 million and with a total of 26,950 places over four years.
These are stays and thermal treatments, with socio-cultural entertainment activities, in a contract of four lots to be carried out in Valencian thermal resorts with mineral and medicinal water sources, declared of public utility and equipped with adequate facilities to accommodate the elderly.
On August 2, two days before the resignation of Ana Isabel Caballer, the general management of Dependency and Elderly people replaced certain members of the hiring table. During a session of the market table on August 7, after the dismissal of the housing manager, the envelopes presented by the companies that opted for the call for tenders were opened, among them the company of which Caballer was a shareholder , who was interested. in lot 3, corresponding to the spa resort of La Vilavella, a municipality of Castellón located at the foot of the Serra d’Espadà.
After her resignation, Ana Caballer returned to present herself as lawyer of Gestión Balnearia SL, according to the Official Journal of the Commercial Registry. She was also CEO and representative of the Agrupación de Balnearios de Villavieja SL, which manages the La Vilavella spa. In his asset declaration on the transparency portal “GVA Oberta”, Caballer indicated shares in the two companies for a total amount of 42,642 euros.
The Department of Social Services, Equality and Housing did not respond to elDiario.es’ questions.
