SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE, 10th April. (EUROPA PRESS) –
Officials from the Judicial Police of the Civil Guard, acting on behalf of the European Prosecutor’s Office, visited the offices of the Department of Health of the Government of the Canary Islands on Tuesday to secure more documentation regarding the health contracts executed by the Canary Islands Health Service during the pandemic.
This information was reported by the newspapers of ‘Prensa Ibérica’ in the islands and was acknowledged by the president of the Canary Islands, Fernando Clavijo, while he was touring the newly inaugurated Hemodynamics facility at La Candelaria Hospital.
Clavijo reiterated the Government’s commitment to “cooperating” with the legal system and made it a point to “facilitate” the tasks of the officials who have scrutinised various records and communications to ensure that the legal system can operate with complete peace and cooperation. “This is essential,” he remarked.
The European Public Prosecutor’s Office, which has assumed responsibility for the investigations as a significant portion of the expenditures were covered by European funding, suspects there are irregularities amounting to nearly 32 million Euros, including the infamous ‘mask scandal’ where payments were made in advance, in two installments of two million Euros each, for the purchase of a million masks from a non-medical supplier that were never delivered.
