THE Junta of Andalusia “categorically” denied the existence of a “fraud of the law” regarding procurement Andalusian Health Service (SAS) through the emergency procedure during the pandemic COVID-19[feminineand affirmed that he is “categorically fake» this circumstance occurred.
THE Minister of Health and Consumer Affairs of the Government of Andalusia, Rocío Hernándezreiterated this message several times during his response to a question posed to him in the Plenary of Parliament the ddeputy of the Socialist Group Rafael Márquez concerning the general policy on procurement by the SAS.
During his speech, the socialist parliamentarian echoed the decision of the Court of Instruction number 13 of Seville admit to the processing of the complaint presented by the PSOE-A on June 20 against the Government of the Government of Andalusia for “presumed” embezzlement And procrastination» in the allocation of approximately 300 million euros through health emergency contracts carried out by the exceptional procedure approved for the Covid-19 pandemic and that, according to the socialists, the Andalusian Health Service (SAS) It continued in use until 2023, “two years after its legal repeal”.
Rafael Marquez judged it “very serious” that a court sees “indications of crime” in the hiring of the SAS, and considered that both the President of the Council, Juanma Moreno (PP-A), Like the counselor herself, they must give “a clear explanation” of what happened.
Likewise, he told the advisor that he only had “two paths” choose, which implies “looking away” at the “irregularities”, which, according to the socialist deputy, Juanma Moreno chose to do, or what “any honest official, who, in the event of a known problem, irregularity, proceed to debugging responsibilities“He who falls, he who falls.”
“It depends on which path you choose,” he said. Rafael Marquez to the advisor, who, for her part, affirmed that “it is completely false that there was legal fraud in the contracts” to which the socialists allude, and defended that “the actions and contracts executed by the Andalusian health service “They always respected the law.”
Likewise, he considered “downright false that a fraud on the law occurred in the judgment of 458 million euros in minor contracts, and explained that this amount “corresponds to the sum of minor contracts that have been concluded in power plants buyout of the SAS of Cádiz, Cordoba, Huelva and Jaén in 2021″, where “more than 295,000 contracts” were executed, and the auditors’ report on which they rely PSOE-A warning against “fraud of the law” in these contracts “only concerns 0.19% of the total contracts” concluded.
The advisor also stressed that in 2021 “we were in the middle of the coronavirus pandemic”. Covidand some of these contracts were used to accelerate the purchase of coronavirus vaccines.
