The head of the Guardia Civil Command in Ávila between 2015 and the end of 2017, Carlos Alonso, declared before the Internal Affairs division of the body that the then Lieutenant General Pedro Vázquez Jarava, one of the four people with the highest rank within the Benemérita at the national level in those years, had indicated that he should hire a company linked to the Mediator case for the works in "numerous barracks in the province."
The suspicions surrounding the granting of said works, located between the second half of 2016 and the beginning of 2017, gave rise to an investigation that uncovered the allegedly irregular awarding of refurbishment contracts in up to 13 barracks in various parts of Spain and that, as had happened in Ávila, were granted to the companies of Ángel Ramón Tejera de León, alias 'Mon', businessman whose name appears linked to the Mediator case and who, in addition, is a friend of the retired General of the Guardia Civil Francisco Espinosa, the only defendant in the Canary Islands extortion plot who, until now, remains in pre-trial detention.
This data has been confirmed by the editorial staff of La Provincia from an order of the Investigating Court number 2 of Ávila, which has been accessed by EL PERIÓDICO DE ESPAÑA, from the Prensa Ibérica group, in which it was already stated that Internal Affairs was investigating the "possible illicit action of the then head of the Guardia Civil Command in Ávila", and in which it was pointed out that the payments for the reforms were authorized even though in some cases the works had not been completed in their entirety or had not even begun to be carried out at the time of payment.
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