SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE, 27 May. (EUROPE PRESS) –
The Union of Communication Professionals of the Canary Islands (UPCC) has shown this Friday its “satisfaction” for the sentence that evidences the irregularities in the processing and preparation of the contracts of Radiotelevisión Canaria (RTVC) during the mandate of Guillermo García and condemns him to four years of disqualification.
The union recalls in a note that the judicial investigation has been possible thanks to the complaint that the UPCC and Izquierda Unida filed with the Santa Cruz de Tenerife Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office on August 9, 2013.
In said complaint, the journalists’ union considered that there were indications of prevarication and other crimes in the contracts that the entity’s former general director, Guillermo García, signed with the companies of the communication businessman Francisco Padrón.
These agreements, indicates the union, supposed an economic damage to the public entity of 1,639,800 euros for a series of programs “that in many cases were never broadcast and that had high costs.”
The sentence now agrees with what was argued by the UPCC and IU, which pointed out the economic benefit obtained by various companies, always without meeting the criteria of effectiveness, efficiency and economy in public procurement as the Audiencia de Cuentas had warned, they indicate.
At the time of filing the lawsuit, UPCC denounced that these illegal actions were in line with García’s “controversial management” at the head of the RTVC, “always prioritizing political and business interests over the interests of its own workers and of the group of the citizenship”.
