SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE 21st Jan (EUROPA PRESS) –
The president of the Audit Office of the Canary Islands (ACC), Pedro Pachecho, stated this Tuesday that he would not have made the second payment of two million euros to RR7 after the order for one million masks had not been received, following an initial payment of two million already completed.
During his testimony before the investigative committee of the Parliament of the Canary Islands, he remarked that after the first breach, the contract should have been dealt with in a “standard manner”, while recognising that initially, emergency contracting was justifiable due to the challenging circumstances in obtaining sanitary supplies.
Pachecho reiterated that there may be signs of accounting liability, which is why the report—finally ratified in December—was sent, even in draft form since it had not been approved in the previous legislature, to the Court of Auditors for a definitive resolution.
Nevertheless, he clarified that “the draft employs the conditional, nothing is concluded, and the authority to establish evidence resides with the Court of Auditors.”
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