SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE, December 19. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The Court of Auditors has provisionally archived the ‘mask case’ in which the Canarian Health Service (SCS) is being investigated for the payment of four million euros for one million masks that were not delivered in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic.
The decree, to which Europa Press has had access and against which an appeal for reconsideration can be filed, comes from a document presented by the Court of the Canary Islands in which it warned of alleged irregularities in an emergency contract signed with the company RR7 United.
In the provisional liquidation record – dated December 14,
2022– the damage to the public coffers was recognized but at the same time, it was proven that the Canarian Health Service had initiated the procedure to recover the money through the Agency’s ruling.
Canarian Tax Administration of November 12, 2022 as the refund has not been made in the voluntary period.
The Prosecutor’s Office, by means of a document dated January 26, 2023, requested the initiation of the accounting trial and its immediate
suspension until the procedure initiated by the Canarian administration for the collection of the debt is concluded and the SCS
In February, he requested the archiving of the proceedings.
Now, the Court of Accounts is based on article 179.2 of the Criminal Procedure Law, which establishes that “the course of the procedure may be suspended in accordance with what is established in section 4 of article 19 of this law, and will be resumed if requested by either party.”
Thus, “if after the period for which the suspension was agreed, no one requests, in the following five days, the resumption of the process, the Lawyer of the Administration of Justice will agree to provisionally archive the files and they will remain in such situation as long as no request is made. the continuation of the process or the expiration of the instance occurs”.
In this case, since none of the parties request it, the “provisional archive of the records is agreed upon, which will remain in said situation as long as the parties do not request their resumption or the expiration of the instance occurs.”
Among those investigated are, among others, the former director of the SCS, Conrado Domínguez, for the alleged crimes of administrative prevarication and influence peddling; the former general director of Economic Resources of the SCS, Ana María Pérez Afonso, for alleged administrative prevarication and the sole administrator of RR7, Rayco González, for alleged aggravated fraud and money laundering.
The criminal case remains open in the European Public Prosecutor’s Office, which claimed jurisdiction over the use of European funds.
