Among them, two of the four who received the most money of the more than 124 million allocated by the Canary Islands government at the time did not meet all requirements.
And of these two, The most favored was the “hedging company” created by Víctor de Aldamacall the getter Koldo Field.
The insular government of the current minister Angel Victor Torres accepted the irregular award of “null and void” contracts to Soluciones de Gestión y Apoyo a Empresas SL for a value of 9,775,500 euros. Around the 12% of the total of what was assigned.
Contracts with the Koldo Fieldin addition, they were irregularly made by handdirectly from the General Directorate of Economic Resources of the Canary Islands Health Service. This entity authorized expenses exceeding the thresholds set by law for their realization, without anyone knowing that he passed the filter of the meeting of the Board of Governors of the Canary Islands.
This is confirmed in an ACC report, dated May 12, 2022, now published. The document It was hidden by Director Torres himselfthanks to the majority of members appointed by the PSOE and Nueva Canarias. According to the sources consulted, it is in these circumstances that the document was not approved by the entire Court, and It was left in a drawer in June of the same year..
The report, currently in the possession of this newspaper, will be presented to the Parliament of the Canary Islands during one of the first plenary sessions next November, as sources from the current regional executive confirmed to EL ESPAÑOL.
Taking into account the absolute majority of the current government alliance between the Canarian Coalition and the Popular Party, it can be affirmed that the report will be transmitted to the Court of Auditors. Once on site, this organization will deduct the accounting responsibilities that could fit Torres and his then advisors.
If it had seen the light of day at the time, the document would have been devastating for the current Minister of Territorial Policy. Its conclusions are exhaustive: “Such contracts, in accordance with the provisions of article 65 of the LCSP [Ley de Contratos del Sector Público] could be involved in some of the causes of nullity as of right“.
The data
In the report, the Accounts Hearing questioned the amount of the contracts: “[Estas dos] companies that generated the greatest volume of contracts with the aforementioned autonomous body (they exceeded 8 million euros). the “lack of guarantees” and they were done with it companies “without accredited experience in the health sector”.
Concretely, Soluciones de Gestión did not respect its obligations, like the five other companies already mentioned, the two main criteria having operated as an emergency contractor for the acquisition of medical supplies: nor his social object corresponded to the call for tenders launched by the Torres government they were also not registered in ROLECE (Official Register of Bidders and State Classified Companies), dependent on the Ministry of Finance.
The company of Koldo Field received on almost 10 million euros from the socialist government of the Canary Islands for just two prices in the period covered by the report. The first call for tenders, on May 4, 2020, for the “supply of two million masks KN95 protective clothing for the fight against Covid-19 for the Canary Islands Health Service”, worth 5,000,000 euros.
And the second, on the 22nd of the same month, for “the acquisition FFP2 protective masks intended for hospitals of the Canary Islands Health Service due to the COVID19 health emergency”, with a value of 4,775,500 euros.
Contradictions
It turns out that the summary of the National Court’s instruction has just incorporated a series of WhatsApp crossed between the then Canarian president and one of Aldama’s partners in the allegedly corrupt plot.
Aldama is now in preventive detention for his involvement in another fraud, also linked to a government concession of Pedro Sancheza hydrocarbon license by which would have defrauded more than 180 million VAT.
Just three months after concluding the two aforementioned contracts with the Aldama company, on August 25, 2020, Torres sent to Ignacio Diaz Tapia the following message, around nine o’clock in the morning:
“Good morning. I will send you the phone number of the advisor [de Sanidad] but We could talk later, if you wish, about the progress made. And, if you can, send me the information from the other day on this WhatsApp, because I spoke with [el ministro de Sanidad, Salvador] Illathese days and there seems to be a good reception.”
El ‘wasap’ del ministro Torres al empresario y socio de Aldama Ignacio Díaz Tapia.
Díaz Tapia se había dirigido a Ángel Víctor Torres como representante de la empresa Eurofins Megalab, otra de las compañías de la trama Koldo, ofreciéndole información sobre unos test antiCovid que ofertaba, en plena desescalada.
Un informe de la Guardia Civil, ya enviado a la Audiencia Nacional y que mencionaba someramente la existencia del chat entre el empresario y Torres, ubica a Koldo García como la persona que había intermediado entre el Díaz Tapia y el hoy ministro. Todo, a pesar de que Torres sostuvo ante el Congreso que “jamás” ordenó “que se contratara con una empresa o no se contratara con otra”.
Así lo indicó el pasado 10 de junio durante la comisión del caso Mascarillas, donde también negó haber hablado nunca con Koldo. “A mí no me llamó el señor [Koldo] García nor the Lord [José Luis] Abalos”he then said. “I was never obliged to order the hiring of no company by any person from the Ministry of Transport,” he stressed.
Conclusions
The Canary Islands Accounts Hearing document ends with a section of devastating conclusions: “The actions carried out by the Canary Islands Health Service, in relation to this matter, could lead to the existence of facts indicative of accounting responsibility“.
This can be clarified in a short time, once the Canary Islands Parliament approves the document and this is sent to the Court of Auditors, “the institution to which this function is entrusted”.
Furthermore, the report states that 12 of 18 funds releasedall corresponding to the SCS, “were justified out of time“.
And what is there four million euros paid and not justified corresponding to two other purchase contracts for masks that were never received.
The filing also indicates that the companies under contract have a corporate purpose that “does not correspond to the sale of medical supplies.”
In other words, the SCS attributed the purchase of medical supplies “to companies that do not appear to have nor accredited the required professional or technical solvency“In accordance with the provisions of the LCSP, neither “nor be legally qualified contract with the administration”, according to its corporate purpose.
This is what leads the ACC to decree the probable “cause of nullity” contracts concluded.
And finally, the Auditorium dishonors the Canarian government of the current Minister Torres, who “in none of the checked files” it appears that the Canary Islands Health Service would verify neither “the capacity of the successful bidders nor that compulsory solvency was required of them” economic, financial and technical to achieve the rewards awarded.
