Covid contracts entered into for the supply of medicines in the midst of a pandemic, two years after signing, become the subject of judicial investigations.
More than twenty contracts worth more than 659 million euros are already being examined in various open cases in the courts of Madrid or in the Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office.
The goal is to find out whether these tenders, which were processed on an emergency basis, hide violations associated with the selected supplier, poor quality of the material supplied, or possible commissions. This is reported vozpopuli.com.
Of the 659 million, 647 came from central government facilities, while the remaining 12 remained from the Community of Madrid and the Metropolitan City Hall. Not all contracts are investigated in court cases. To date, tenders from the Ministry of Health worth 321 million euros have come under suspicion in the courts, and a tender signed by the Madrid City Council with businessmen Luis Medina (as an intermediary) and Alberto Luceño for 10.9 million euros.
For its part, the Anti-Corruption Authority has two more complaints: one concerns a contract that the government of Isabel Diaz Ayuso signed with Priviet Sportive for the supply of masks worth 1.5 million euros, and the other concerns contracts signed by the government of Pedro Sánchez. The latter were submitted to the prosecutor’s office by the Ayuso administration and amount to 326 million euros. It should be remembered that of these two complaints, only one is being investigated by the Anti-Corruption Authority to date, and it is related to the Madrid Community Treaty. On another, which affects the central Administration, the decision has not yet been made.
