Madrid (EFE) diversion of public aid.
González, a former government delegate in Madrid, thus becomes the second woman to lead the Civil Guard in its almost 180-year history and will take office before the Ministers of Defense, Margarita Robles, and Interior, Fernando Grande-Marlaska, given the dependency of the Corps to both departments.
In any case, the new director has already taken office for the first time by attending some event, such as last Wednesday the swearing in of the 169th promotion at the Valdemoro Guards College (Madrid), which the Secretary of State presided over of Security, Rafael Perez.
And on Sunday he attended in Oviedo the funeral chapel of the civil guard Dámaso Guillén, 49, who died on Saturday after being run over by a 29-year-old man who was driving a stolen vehicle while he was on protection duty for a cycling tour.
Resignation of his predecessor
Her predecessor resigned on March 22 as soon as she found out that her husband had been charged, and she did so to protect her family and the Civil Guard, two “unavoidable” reasons, according to what she said that same day.
Mercedes González has acceded to the position shortly after the so-called Barracks case broke out, which began to investigate Internal Affairs of the body in 2016, when the PP governed, and which was later reactivated to investigate irregularities in the award of works in barracks to the businessman Angel Ramón Tejera de León, aka Mon.
A businessman also implicated in the Mediator case, in which alleged bites by businessmen of a former PSOE deputy and the retired Civil Guard general Francisco Espinosa Navas, in provisional prison for this cause, are being investigated.
Added to these two cases involving the Civil Guard is the Grapa case, in which a Madrid court investigates around twenty people, physical and legal, for alleged rigging in contracts related to police uniforms.
