SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE, June 16. (EUROPE PRESS) –
The Investigating Court Number 4 of La Laguna has submitted a reasoned statement to the Supreme Court to assess the involvement of the senator of the Canarian Coalition, Fernando Clavijo, in the ‘Reparos case’, which affects his management as mayor of La Laguna, for an alleged crime of administrative prevarication.
The resolution, as a separate piece and made public this Thursday, points out that Clavijo raised numerous objections from Intervention in various files between approximately 2014 and 2018 and given his status as a senator and appraisal, the Supreme Court must decide on the issue.
Judge Ana Serrano maintains in her brief that the extensions of the contracts were inadmissible, in the opinion of the municipal comptroller, while resorting to the “fraudulent” use of the figure of the minor contract that cannot last more than one year or be extended.
Likewise, he points out that it seems “very difficult” for Clavijo, a qualified economist with more than 20 years of experience in public administration in different positions, to ignore “the pillars” of public procurement that are based on free access to tenders, advertising, transparency, non-discrimination and equal treatment.
Along the same lines, he understands that it is “difficult” that he does not know that the contracts cannot be carried out indefinitely by the same company or the “obligation” that the administration has to plan the contracts to guarantee services to citizens.
The resolution states that there were extemporaneous extensions with retroactive effect, and also authorizations for the continuity of the service with violated administrative contracting principles.
The judge blames Clavijo for not ordering that measures be taken to avoid the repetition of the extensions -in some cases up to eight years- despite being informed by a management team, apart from the fact that it caused “damage” to the coffers given that the economic-financial plan 2011-13 implied that the contracts that went out to tender would lower their cost between 15% and 20%.
