The Court of Instruction number 8 of Cordoba prosecuted the former infrastructure advisor of the Cordoba City Hall David Dorado who will be judged by the Provincial Court of Cordoba for an offense of prevarication linked to the award of the contract security system educational centers in the capital Cordoba, for which he risks 12 years of ban from any public function.
The prosecution, in its qualification letter, to which ABC had access, recalls that the Local Government Council The Cordoba City Council approved by decree the contractual file relating to the “Maintenance service of various installations against intrusion into public schools and municipal buildings” and that the service was awarded to a company for an amount of approximately 84,000 euros of those of approximately 54,000 corresponded to preventive maintenance and corrective maintenance. A second entity participated in this call for tenders and its proposal was rejected.
The contract for these security systems in Solfa, as indicated in the prosecutor’s account of the facts, was concluded for an initial period of one year, with the possibility of extension for a maximum period of one year. Thus, once this period had expired, the extension of the contract for one year was agreed and the obligatory continuity of the contract was proposed in writing for a period of seven months, under the same conditions, said proposal being signed by the jResponsible for school building and maintenance and the general infrastructure coordinator, – both investigated in other legal cases linked to the “infrastructure file” – with the agreement of the accused, who at the time held the status of advisor for infrastructure, sustainability and the environment, and with the acceptance of the winning company.
However, a letter signed by the general coordinator of Infrastructure was sent to the project owner service, withdrawing the continuity and the ban on the accounting documents accompanying the request because: “… They do not meet the financing needs of the new contract which is currently being processed, in order to have access to budget credit necessary to issue the necessary credit retention documents.
A little later, according to the prosecutor, a supporting report relating to the award of the maintenance service is sent to the contracting unit. various facilities against trespass into public schools and main buildings, signed by the school building and maintenance manager, the infrastructure coordinator and the accused.
The contracting unit opened the file and requested the managing body to correct various deficiencies detected in the report and technical specifications sent, leaving the procedure paralyzed without being addressed. However, a few days later, without favorable report In this regard, nor in any treatment of the case, the accused signed a contract with an entity for the provision of the installation and/or maintenance service with connection to an alarm reception center for public schools and the municipal buildings of the Cordoba Town Hallfor extendable monthly periods, at a price of 16.33 euros per month per center plus VAT.
The subject of the contract was the installation of the anti-intrusion system, installation of the video surveillance system, preventive maintenance, corrective maintenance, availability of technical assistance 24 hours a day, commissioning of the installation, operation of alarm centers and verification of alarms by image or video surveillance, establishing in the fourth clause of the contract that the service has started.
Thus, in his capacity as advisor for the field of infrastructure, David Dorado, without having any powers in contractual matteroutside the procedure and without respecting the basic principles of the public procurement system for the award, proceeded to sign a contract with the new entity when it was already there was a previous contract for the provision of identical services, which have been awarded after the processing of a prolonged public procurement procedure and for which the obligatory continuation of the service has been achieved: start, with the agreement of the contractor, what would have served to ensure that the service continues to be provided, without harming the general interestuntil the development and award of a new contract to replace the previous one.
Thus, the letter from the Public Prosecutor’s Office continues, “as the existence of a contract which covered the contract could not be proven, the invoices were processed and processed individually, so that, since they were less than 3,000 euros, they were not required. justify any procedure, other than the conformity of the service to make payment. For this purpose, they were presented monthly two different invoicesone for connection to the alarm center and another for corrective maintenance of municipal buildings when in reality they corresponded to the same service, thus dividing the amount into two invoices of less than 3,000 euros.
The alarm signal of intervention
It is for this reason that the General Intervention of the Cordoba City Hall has published a report on the control of the invoices issued by this security company corresponding to the 2022 financial year for a total amount of more than 25,000 euros, which have been returned to the management service. , with a ratio of objection or disagreement.
The Cordoba public prosecutor’s office considers the former Cs advisor directly responsible for a crime of prevarication, which is why it asks the disqualification penalty special for employment or public service and for the right to passive suffrage for a period of 12 years.
It should be remembered that Dorado is the subject of an investigation before other courts of the capital of Córdoba in different separate parts of the “Infrastructures Case” following the “Caronte” operation of National Police but three of them have already been archived during the investigation phase.
The last of these archived files is the one signed by the president of the Court of Instruction 7 of Cordoba who just a few weeks ago ordered the open file against the former advisor of the Infrastructure sector of the City Hall of Cordoba, David Dorado, and then coordinator of the sector, MLB, in the separate part of the “Infrastructures Case” for an alleged attempt to corrupt an advertising agency during the previous municipal term.
