The command of Canary Islands of the Army is reviewing the contract awarded to the businessman lanzaroteNo Angel Ramon Tejera de Leonbetter known as Mon, for waterproofing works on the roofs of the main building of Paso Alto, in Santa Cruz de Tenerife. Mon is the builder identified in the Cuarteles case, an alleged criminal plot involving members of the leadership of the Civil Guard, which would have made it easier for the rabbit businessman to get around 200 contracts for small remodeling and barracks reform jobs throughout Spain. Tejera de León, as this newspaper reported yesterday, was also awarded the contract for these works at the Paso Alto facilities, and He achieved it after offering to carry them out at a cost much lower than the value of the contract and at the prices offered. for the other nine companies that bid for the Ministry of Defense commission. The initial amount of the contract amounted to 78,695.31 euros, according to the information contained in public records, and the agreement between Defensa and Angrasurcor –one of the businesses with which Mon achieved dozens of orders from the Civil Guard– It was closed in September 2022 for 60,453.48 euros, almost a quarter below the value of the parcel. A full-fledged reckless loss that, however, did not prevent the rabbit builder from ending up with the contract.
Grande-Marlaska assures that the Benemérita is the first interested in investigating the case
When a reckless leave occurs, and in order to prevent the company from lowering the cost of the work at the expense, for example, of the salaries of the employees, the contracting institution –in this case the Ministry of Defense– must request the employer a detailed justification of his offer. Well, among the documentation that Mon provided to resolve the legal objections to his proposal -and which allowed him to keep the contract-, there is a report in his favor from the Command of the Civil Guard of Santa Cruz de Tenerife, addressed to his removal on Wednesday of last week by Chief Colonel José María Tienda, whose name appears in the summary of the mediator case. Store is a friend of the division general Francisco Espinosa –the only one of the twelve investigated for the alleged political-business plot who is in prison–, and Espinosa is in turn a close friend of Tejera de León. This is the connection between the Mediator and Barracks cases. In the latter, the name of Lieutenant General Pedro Vázquez Jarava also appears, already retired and who is mentioned together with Mon as the alleged ringleader of the alleged bribery plot through those dozens of small-amount contracts to fix and modernize police barracks. Meritorious of the Islands and the Peninsula. Especially in the province of Santa Cruz de Tenerife, where the former chief colonel Tienda would have acted as a facilitator in the awards to the businesses of the businessman from Lanzarote.
Sources from the Canary Islands Command, which depends on the Defense Staff – with the rank of Secretary of State within the Ministry directed by Margarita Robles – explained yesterday that, as is logical, they are reviewing the file of the entrustment to Angrasurcor. The fact that there was a reckless discharge does not necessarily imply, far from it, an irregularity, but it is striking that among the documentation presented by Mon to justify his very low offer, there is precisely that “report from the Commander [sic] of the Civil Guard on the works carried out in the different dependencies”. Although the signature of José María Tienda does not appear in the file –the sources consulted say–, it is no less true that he, as chief colonel, was in charge of the Command of the Civil Guard of Santa Cruz de Tenerife. In any case, and as necessary, the Canary Islands Command will review the file with a magnifying glass.
The builder took over the Paso Alto contract thanks to an endorsement from the dismissed colonel Tienda
The Minister of the Interior, Fernando Grande-Marlaska, insisted yesterday on his message of “zero tolerance” in the face of the alleged corruption of the Civil Guard in this Barracks case. Marlaska recalled that Internal Affairs is studying what happened and that the Benemérita is the “main interest in carrying out a thorough investigation of all the reported acts.” The Court of Instruction 4 of Santa Cruz de Tenerife is in charge of the case. He PP will take advantage of the next plenary session of Congress to try to focus on the Mediator plot and, by extension, on the Barracks.
