Madrid, Mar 11 (EFE) a case opened in 2020, different from the “Mediator case” and the case of the barracks.
As the newspaper ABC has announced this Saturday and sources close to the investigation have confirmed to EFE, the Investigating Court number 50 of Madrid has summoned several investigated persons to testify soon, including the company El Corte Inglés, in the case opened after the called operation Staple, carried out in 2020.
The Internal Affairs Unit of the Civil Guard arrested in July 2020 Colonel Juan Antonio Maroto and Lieutenant Colonel Alberto Martín Altube, heads of the Armed Forces Recruitment Service, and five other people for this plot, which was related to an operation previous one carried out in 2017, when fourteen people were arrested for rigging public contracts both in the General Directorate of Police and in the General Directorate of Traffic (DGT).
The case fell to the Investigating Court number 50 of Madrid, which has continued to investigate and now there are about twenty investigated, some of whom the magistrate plans to take a statement soon, the sources detail.
Among them there are people and companies, such as El Corte Inglés, that allegedly have benefited from the corrupt scheme, for example, obtaining privileged information on awards of supplies of clothing and uniforms in exchange for gifts.
The Unified Association of Civil Guards (AUGC) is involved in this case derived from the Grapa operation, in which it requested to be from the beginning as a popular accusation, in its work in favor of investigating cases of corruption within the Corps.
AUGC denounced when the alleged plot was uncovered that “while civil guards served in the midst of a pandemic without means of self-protection in contagion, according to journalistic information about the investigation, senior commanders could favor companies or planned to do so in relation to supply.”
This cause is added to the recently known one, which is being handled by another Madrid court, for possible irregularities in works of Civil Guard barracks carried out in thirteen commands of the Corps, and which, according to the indictment, would affect almost 200 projects for a total amount of more than 2.6 million euros.
All of these works were awarded to companies belonging to Ángel Ramón Tejera de León, known as Mon, whose name appears in the summary of the Mediator case, another alleged corruption plot for which retired Civil Guard general Francisco Espinosa Navas has been imprisoned .