The investigation against Ana Millán, former mayor of Arroyomolinos and number 3 of the Madrid PP, has testimonies that the Civil Guard and the Court that investigated the case for four years consider particularly relevant. It is a civil servant of the Arroyomolinos City Council who acted as Millán’s right-hand man during the stage investigated, when she was a youth councilor. Before the agents of the Central Operational Unit (UCO), the official described how the businessman accused of paying bribes to Ana Millán in exchange for rewards had received preferential treatment from the mayor of Arroyomolinos at the time.
The civil servant, who currently continues to work at the Arroyomolinos City Hall, explained to the UCO agents that her administrative position prevented her from signing the award documents and that Ana Millán had signed the signature after giving her instructions with everything they had to include. In meetings with the companies, the manager always accompanied Ana Millán. He was, according to other witnesses from the city hall, her “right hand man”.
However, when the person who went to the Youth Department was businessman Francisco Roselló, the official was not allowed to access the meetings. “Regarding the contracts in which Grupo Educativo companies were involved, Ana Millán separated her, not allowing her to intervene. “That I only indicated to him, once he had decided, the camps/workshops that had to be rented,” official V. told the Civil Guards on March 13.
At the time of the witness’s statement, UCO agents had long calculated that Millán, his sister and his partner had earned 214,638.45 euros between 2008 and 2016 from Roselló’s companies, which in turn had obtained contracts during that period exceeding 600,000 euros from the Youth Department.
The official’s testimony took place two months before the last regional elections in May 2023. Once the elections were held, Millán became a deputy in the Madrid Assembly thanks to Isabel Díaz Ayuso’s decision to support her on the lists despite her accusation. The official’s testimony was presented by the UCO to the court in a report compiling all the evidence dated April 2024. Díaz Ayuso’s determined commitment to Millán despite the accumulation of evidence against her and her status as a person under investigation made the former mayor of Arroyomolinos as vice-secretary of Organization and Electoral of the PP of Madrid and vice-president of the Assembly.
Last June, Judge Lidia Prado decided to recuse herself in favor of the High Court of Justice of Madrid due to the status of qualified person that Millán has had since Isabel Díaz Ayuso decided to include him on the lists for the May 2023 elections when she was already She had been under investigation for a year and the payments made by the businessman to her and her family were known. In her restraining order, the judge cites the crimes of influence peddling, embezzlement, corruption and fraud against the Administration. It is the same order in which the magistrate highlights the testimony of civil servant V.
“Only with contracts with Roselló”
“Everything related to Grupo Educativo was managed personally by Ana Millán. She worked alone with her director Francisco Roselló, locking herself in her office,” the agents say. The manager also stated that “she was not present at any of these meetings” and that “this case did not occur with other companies because she participated in the meetings that took place.” With the Roselló group contracts, he concluded, Ana Millán only “provided the necessary information to carry out her work” and this “only happened with the contracts awarded to Grupo Educativo.”
Ana Millán, as a youth councilor of Arroyomolinos, awarded contracts worth almost 400,000 euros to a businessman who paid her 500 euros more than the market price each month for the rental of a penthouse in the center of Arroyomolinos. In addition, the same businessman hired and paid the councilor’s sister and her husband. Millán’s possible influence on other contracts awarded to Francisco Vicente Roselló by the Ministry of Culture, 257,000 euros more, is also being investigated.
In 2016, three years after the start of this case, the government that succeeded the PP in Arroyomolinos discovered members of the outgoing group trying to get rid of three garbage bags. Inside, emails and bank statements were found that demonstrated the relationship between a businessman, Francisco Vicente Roselló, owner of the company Neverland, with which he had been responsible for youth, and therefore for the city’s festivities, Ana Millán.
Millán received payments from a company of Roselló, Neverland, “and from Francisco Roselló himself”, for a total value of 51,104.67 euros. A former employee of one of Roselló’s companies, who lived in Millán’s penthouse, told the agents that he paid 500 euros per month to his then boss. Roselló, in turn, gave 900 euros per month to Millán. The businessman and mayor’s argument before the judge is that if the rent was close to double the market price, it is because it was a rental with the right to purchase that the businessman never exercised afterwards.
On the other hand, between 2008 and 2011, Millán’s sister, a social worker, billed Roselló’s companies 88,642.42 euros and the former’s husband received 37,578.04 euros from the businessman’s conglomerate between 2008 and 2011. Judge Navalcarnero He also cites in the injunction order At the TSJM, the Civil Guard discovered cash income of 42,650 euros from Millán herself in her bank accounts during this period, between 2008 and 2014 in the latter case.
