An investigating judge from Seville will cite as investigation to the director of the Andalusian Health Service (SAS), Valle García, and to two former directors, Diego Vargas and Miguel Ángel Guzmán, as part of the investigation into the PSOE complaint for the emergency hiring that the government of Juanma Moreno carried out during the pandemic in Andalusian public health. Many contracts are under surveillance between 2021 and 2023 due to possible procrastination.
The PSOE denounced the fact that the SAS resorted to emergency contracts worth 242 million euros once the covid-19 pandemic was over, and estimated the damage caused to the public treasury by this “handmade” procedure at 24 million euros. The president of the Court of Instruction 13 of Seville, Francisco Javier Santamaría, issued an order in which he admitted the complaint and summoned the manager and her predecessors in office to transfer them and inform them of their rights.
The defendants were summoned “any business day” in November to inform them of their rights, and they will be called to testify “at a later date,” according to the order. The PSOE appears in this case as a popular accusation after posting a bail of 5,000 euros and after the complaint filed last October by thirty Andalusian socialist deputies against the two leaders of SAS in the pandemic, which was expanded a month later against the current director.
The complaint, investigated by the Seville anti-corruption prosecutor’s office, refers to the maintenance of emergency hiring within the SAS for two and a half years when the covid pandemic was already over. These contracts, according to the plaintiffs, had to be processed again according to the procedures established in the Public Sector Contracts Act (PSC).
The socialist complaint refers to file 110/2021, by which The health administration authorized emergency recruitment complementary health services for medical stays due to network overload derived from the pandemic due to an initial amount of 70 million euros. This amount was subject to various extensions between 2021 and 2022 until reaching the amount of 242.73 million.
The Andalusian President, Juanma Moreno, declared three days ago regarding this complaint that the Andalusian PSOE, “activated by Moncloa, considers that the best way to erode the government and myself is to judicialize public life and to supposedly create a political cause in which they say we are corrupt.”
Moreno stressed that this is a “made-up political complaint” and showed confidence in his case. “We are going to see how this ‘show’ that they are organizing around the Andalusian Government develops”, reiterated Moreno, who assured that on the part of the Commission there was “maximum transparency”, cooperation with Justice and , above all, “serenity and peace of mind” while waiting for the matter to be resolved “as soon as possible with the filing of the file”.
