The Balearic government of Francina Armengol bought PCR tests from the Koldo scheme despite having detected that its first acquisition of medical supplies, relating to a batch of 1.5 million masks, It had come out defective. In this case, the negotiation was led by Víctor de Aldama and his partners, in accordance with the new messages incorporated into the summary of the procedure.
They were exchanged at the end of 2020, when the network was trying to sell its diagnostic tests to both the Canary Islands and the Balearic Islands. Thus, on December 2, 2020, Ignacio Díaz, from the Megalab company, conveyed to Aldama the progress of the conversations with the government led by the current president of the Congress of Deputies. “Good morning. I just hung up with the Balearic Islands. Start day 18 (Sic)”, he told him, to which Aldama responded: “Great and the Canary Islands.”
Subsequently, Tapia sent him an image of the conversation that, in parallel, he was having with the then director of the Canary Islands Health Service, Conrado Domínguez. From it it is clear how both talk about the business of the plot on the Pitiusas Islands: “With the Balearic Islands I have agreed to an initial contract and work on the largest as we move forward,” he explained. Domínguez – who is being investigated by the European Prosecutor’s Office for the purchase of medical supplies – responded that they could follow the Balearic model: “When we know we will talk about it,” he said.
Second contract and official recommendation
In the new UCO report contributed to the proceedings of the National Court, numerous messages appear between Domínguez and the partners of Aldama in which it is reflected that they managed first-hand the sale of the diagnostic tests in the midst of the de-escalation process and to reactivate traffic at airports. The PCR test contracts were forged in both the Canary Islands and the Balearic Islands, after a first hit with the Management Solutions masks.
The Canary Islands acquired items worth 12.3 million euros between April and May 2020, while the Balearic Islands paid 3.7 million euros to the firm that Víctor de Aldama introduced into the Administration. by Koldo García. It is striking that in both cases defective batches of face masks were detected. In the case of the Balearic Islands, they knew before summer 2020 that part of this material was “fake” and, despite this, They contracted with the network again.
What’s more, it appears in the case summary, to which LA RAZÓN has had access, that the Health Department of the Balearic Government recommended the hiring of Management Solutions after verifying that the masks were defective. In fact, they certified in writing that the Aragonese company, which was awarded covid contracts for up to 54 million euros, had made supplies “satisfactorily” in 2020. However, the current Balearic government announced last year that it was going to audit the two contracts with Eurofins Megalab after appearing to be implicated in this corruption case.
Contracts under suspicion
Precisely, one of the first suspicions that the Civil Guard expressed in its 2022 reports is that there is hardly any documentation to justify the contracts with the governments of Francina Armengol and Ángel Víctor Torres with Management Solutions. Likewise, they warned that deliveries of medical supplies occurred even before the awards were put out to tender in those first months of the pandemic.
In fact, this medium reported that, with regard to the Balearic Islands, only the existence of a proforma invoice was recorded that lacked legal validity. The Central Operational Unit (UCO) of the Civil Guard stated in this regard that the delivery of the masks acquired from the Koldo plot occurred on April 27, although It wasn’t until two days later. when the contracting body was requested to declare emergency processing, which was issued on May 4.
In their latest report, the agents place Aldama as the person who gave “the instructions” regarding covid contracts “both in the Canary Islands and the Balearic Islands”. In this way, the commission agent – who pocketed more than five million in commissions with these awards – gave instructions to his partners regarding the negotiations with the Torres and Armengol governments while, in parallel, he paid 10,000 euros per month to José Luis Ábalos’ advisor so that it would open the doors for them in the different administrations.