The Civil Guard shelved the internal investigation of the Cuarteles case in 2017. The former director of the Benemérita José Manuel Holgado closed the file that, eight months earlier, had been sent by the Internal Affairs Service warning of the "increase in contracts awarded" by different units of the armed institute to the Canary Islands businessman Ángel Ramón Tejera, alias "Mon", one of the main investigated.
He did so, according to what Cadena Ser has advanced and EFE investigation sources confirmed, after Lieutenant General Pedro Vázquez Jarava, then in command of the General Subdirectorate of Support and another of those investigated in the Cuarteles case, issued a report in May 2017 in which he concluded that there was no "indication of crime" and that it was not necessary to "transfer the Internal Affairs file to the Prosecutor's Office", which did see "indications of illegality."
Six months after receiving Jarava's conclusions, the then director of the Civil Guard at the time of Juan Ignacio Zoido (Popular Party) at the head of the Ministry of the Interior ordered the file of the Internal Affairs file and "the cessation of actions", the sources specify.
Later, in May 2018, the Internal Affairs Service received an email from the Operations Section of the General Staff of the Civil Guard with an anonymous letter that reached the Secretary of State for Security, in which, again, "irregularities" in contracting matters in the Ávila Command were highlighted.
These alleged irregularities have ended up leading to the so-called Cuarteles case, which began in a court in Ávila in 2019, but which finally ended up reaching one in Madrid after the judge found that in other commands (thirteen in total) "events similar to those in Ávila" had occurred.
What the judge was referring to, in the order in which he inhibited the court in Madrid, is that precisely "at the request" of Lieutenant Jarava "the companies" of the businessman from Lanzarote Ángel Ramón Tejera, whose name also appears in the summary of the Mediador case, had been hired to carry out painting and waterproofing work.
These works, according to the investigation, were paid for through the decentralization of a budget allocation "despite the partial execution or lack of execution" of the contracted services, causing "a high damage to the public treasury." The investigators calculate that works for 3.3 million euros between 2008 and 2019 would have been awarded to companies of "Mon".
Thirteen commands
The affected Civil Guard commands would be Murcia, Albacete, Algeciras, Alicante, Ávila, Badajoz, Castellón, Huelva, Jaén, A Coruña, Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Toledo and Valladolid.
In addition to Jarava and Tejera, the former head of the Ávila Command Carlos Alonso Rodríguez and a worker linked to the businessman are also under investigation in the case.
Before serving as Deputy Director General of Support of the Civil Guard, a position in which Jarava was appointed in September 2015, he was in command of the General Subdirectorate of Personnel from December 2012. In January 2018, with Zoido in the Ministry, his dismissal from the Support and Innovation Command was ordered. EFE