The Ministry of the Interior has started the administrative procedure for cancellation the ball purchase contract of 9 millimeters for the Civil Guard awarded to an Israeli company for more than six million euros.
Interior reports this Tuesday that it has already launched the process cancel the price to the company Guardian Homeland Security SA for 9 Parabelum Nato cartridges of 19 millimeters for the Civil Guardas evidenced by the contract awarded on February 21 and awarded on October 21 and published by the Public Procurement Platform.
Thus, Interior rectifies after this contract concluded barely a week ago. Two days after this purchase was made official, Defense responded by letter to Sumar that the government had suspended the purchase of weapons from Israel for an indefinite period. According to Defense, last year, only contracts were signed to repair parts, particularly aeronautical ones, which were temporarily exported and returned after restoration. The rest would be frozen until further notice.
Today, the Interior is taking a step back and canceling the attribution of this company founded by former agents of the Israeli intelligence services. “The Spanish government maintains its commitment not to sell or buy weapons to the Israeli state since the armed conflict broke out in the territory of Gaza,” the Interior Ministry statement said.
The Marlaska Department reiterates that, although it concerns ammunition, it has already started the administrative procedure to cancel the said purchase. In addition, it guarantees that other Israeli companies will now be excluded from bidders in other arms acquisition files currently being handled by. the General Directorate of the Civil Guard.
Cheap weapons
This Israeli company has been one of the regular clients of the ministry headed by Fernando Grande-Marlaska in recent years. Particularly in terms of ammunition and firearms, and more particularly of a model known as the Ramon Pistols.
The Guardian Homeland Security continued to benefit from significant awards from the Interior despite the controversy uncovered a little over a year ago, when various Armed Institute associations denounced that one of the batches of 6,000 pistols low cost They were defective.
In total, the Government has granted over the last 5 years more than 50 contracts worth more than 29 million euros at Guardian Homeland Security.
As exclusively published by EL ESPAÑOL, the businessman responsible for the company provided security services for Miguel Angel Moratinos when he was foreign minister in 2005.
Ilan Arzooan, a former member of the Israeli security services, is the sole administrator, director and financial manager of this company, registered in the commercial register. He was stationed at his country’s embassies in Cairo and Madrid. In 2005, during a visit by Minister Moratinos to Israel, he served as head of security during his stay. He later founded this company.
