There was a time when the companies of Ángel Ramón Tejera de León, better known as Mon, had no real competence to carry out reforms in Civil Guard facilities in Santa Cruz de Tenerife, under the command of the head of the command Jose Maria Store, ceased this Wednesday night by the Ministry of the Interior. Either he received the orders directly, or from the Headquarters a budget was also requested from a company whose sole administrator had a corporate and labor relationship with Tejera himself. Everything, or almost everything, was tied up. The Mon companies came to invoice more than 1,522,000 euros for more than fifty works in barracks of the Civil Guard in the province of Santa Cruz de Tenerife during a period of eleven years, between 2008 and 2019.
Three million and almost half in Santa Cruz de Tenerife
Work at different facilities of the Armed Institute in Tenerife, La Palma, La Gomera and El Hierro accounted for almost half of all income that the Canarian businessman obtained with the awards that he allegedly received thanks to the decisions of different commanders or positions of the security body, which amounted to more than three million euros throughout the country over more than a decade. In that period, the heads of thirteen territorial units (the area of Murcia, as well as the provincial commands of Albacete, Algeciras, Alicante, Ávila, Badajoz, Castellón, Huelva, Jaén, La Coruña, Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Toledo and Valladolid), the Headquarters of Economic Affairs and the General Director of the Civil Guard awarded works to Tejera de León and the self-employed worker linked to Mon, Salvador Gutiérrez Espinosa, for a total amount of 3,302,654 euros. The income attributed to Gutiérrez is almost testimonial with respect to the former, for whom he carried out work.
For the works not carried out and for those carried out only in part, and which were certified as if they had been done or carried out properly, there are allegedly indications that the crimes of falsifying an official document, falsifying a commercial document and embezzlement have been committed. of public funds, although other criminal offenses are not ruled out.
trustworthy businessman
The billings of Ángel Ramón Tejera’s merchants were not regular during the time he was a trusted businessman for the Civil Guard. There was a first stage in the years 2008, 2009 and 2012. Through the companies Lancelot Pinturas y Decoración, Angrating and Inversiones Andelmar, Mon received 337,893 euros. Of them, he billed 108,172 euros in 2008; 225,016 in 2009, and 4,704 in 2012.
Between December 2014 and April 2019, this link between the reform businessman and the security force was reactivated again, but this time in a much more intense way. Already then Tejera de León used other companies to operate in Tenerife, La Palma, La Gomera and El Hierro, such as Angrasurcor SL. and Solocorcho SL. In those four and a half years, Ángel Ramón Tejera and the self-employed worker Salvador Gutiérrez appear in 47 invoices issued for a total amount of 927,499 euros, based on many other works carried out in posts and facilities in the province of Santa Cruz de Tenerife . These works, which were commissioned by the Command with headquarters in the capital of Tenerife, are divided into 19 minor contracts (for a volume of 796,934 euros) and fixed cash advances (for another 130,565). In 2016, the growth in turnover was exponential.
Boundaries
Until November 2017, the legislation provided that minor contracts could not exceed 50,000 euros in turnover. From that date, a new regulation reduced the limit to 40,000. And, in the case of fixed cash advances, the interventions cannot cost more than 5,000 euros, according to the Law.
In the aforementioned period, the company Angrasurcor was awarded works by the Headquarters of Economic Affairs of the Civil Guard, for 88,990 euros, as well as by the general director of the Civil Guard, for another 168,523.
On most occasions, the Santa Cruz de Tenerife Command requested a single economic offer for works and it was made to one of the two companies of Ángel Ramón Tejera de León mentioned (Agrasurcor and Solocorcho), dedicated to reforms and to cover walls or facades with projected cork. But another curious fact also appears in the investigations. In five work files (for actions in Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Tijarafe, Valverde, Los Llanos de Aridane and Tacoronte), a market survey was carried out from the Tenerife Command; that is, a budget was requested from another company.
Partner
In all these cases, we obtained economic projects delivered by companies in which Ángel Ramón Tejera de León or his partner, Rafael Gadanha, had management positions. Experts in the field consider that this is presumably a procedure that is used irregularly in public works adjudications, where two or more companies agree so that one presents a more attractive offer than the other or others, thereby which is already known in advance which of them is going to obtain the concession of the works.
Gadanha was listed as a partner and administrator in a company, Construcciones Abesalva, but, at the same time, he was also listed as a partner in Solocorcho and proxy in Angrasurcor, the two Mon firms that had the most activity in the province of Santa Cruz de Tenerife between the end of 2014 and April 2019.
Angrasurcor, Solocorcho and Canarycork, together with the self-employed worker Salvador Gutiérrez, issued 20 invoices between October 14 and November 21, 2016 for an amount of 95,693 euros at the offices of the Armed Institute of the province of Santa Cruz de Tenerife. And between November 8 and December 2 of the same year, the same merchants obtained 120,000 euros for 26 works in barracks in the province of Ávila. In 50 days, the income of Tejera de León y Gutiérrez increased by 215,693 euros in total. In a report dated March 2019, there are 21 invoices for interventions: one in El Hierro, four in La Gomera, five in La Palma and eleven in Tenerife. Said document ensures that presumably in eight of them some of the billed and collected work units were not executed. These alleged irregularities occurred between October 2, 2016 and February 23, 2018 for a global amount of 38,727 euros.
Invoices without IGIC
The works that allegedly were not carried out affect the barracks of La Victoria, Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Puerto de la Cruz (Tenerife), Los Llanos de Aridane (La Palma), Fasnia and Buenavista del Norte and Icod de los Vinos ( Tenerife). None of the invoices that appear in the documentation handled by the Civil Guard investigators included the Canary Islands Indirect General Tax (IGIC), which is 7% of the amount of the work.
During the investigation commissioned by a Court of Ávila for alleged irregularities in that province, ten alleged cases were found in which the works were not carried out entirely in Santa Cruz de Tenerife. The global amount of this series of invoices amounted to 51,078 euros and they were issued between October 14, 2016 and February 26, 2018.
And they also appeared two services, for a total of 70,859 euros, in which the invoiced work is oversizedWell, at first glance, it was evident that the actual intervention was much smaller in area than what was on the papers. Actions were carried out in the Playa de Santiago (La Gomera) and San Benito barracks, in the municipality of La Laguna.
Duplicate intervention in kennels in La Laguna
The analysis of the documentation revealed that there were two interventions by the Mon merchants investigated where there was deficient execution. One of them occurred at the main post in Los Llanos de Aridane, on La Palma, which consisted of chipping the breastplates of the entire deck and common areas. Its cost amounted to 5,720 euros and the invoice dates from February 23, 2018. The other job in which there was no proper completion was that of Valverde, in El Hierro, for 13,546 euros.
On this occasion, the workers had to paint the facades and interior walls of official offices with white resin. But, in the end, the white resin was not applied. There is also an episode in which works are superimposed in the same place and with the same purpose.. It was for the repair with mortar and paint of the kennels of the San Benito barracks, in La Laguna, for which 2,569 euros were paid on November 16, 2018. But this action coincides with another that was invoiced on March 14, 2019 And it is also clear that, on numerous occasions, it was not possible to obtain objective information on the execution of the unit of work, since it is hidden behind various subsequent painting operations.
