The name of the businessman Ramón Tejera, alias "Mon", continues to be at the center of the debate. Thirteen territorial units of the Civil Guard would have awarded up to 3,302,654.42 euros to the businessman from Lanzarote. These tenders were carried out through minor contracts and advances for works that were allegedly not executed or were done partially despite having been invoiced. The case also affected a lieutenant general of the Civil Guard who is now under investigation and has led to the opening of an investigation in the Command of Santa Cruz de Tenerife.
As reported by the newspaper La Provincia, the Civil Guard seized the treasury of the Tenerife Command this Tuesday amid suspicions of possible irregularities in the payments of minor works to rehabilitate barracks of the Benemérita in Santa Cruz de Tenerife. Within the framework of these proceedings, the General Staff of the Benemérita requested the accounts of all the units in the province to find out if the current chief colonel of the Command of Santa Cruz, José María Tienda, could have favored the awarding of contracts for the benefit of "Mon".
For his part, Ángel Tejera insists that he has not received any calls from the courts. "I have never gone to testify before a judge. I was taught that if you have a problem, the court calls you," he said in an interview with La Provincia this Tuesday.
The case of the alleged irregularities in the works carried out in the Civil Guard barracks began in 2020. These awards resulted in an open criminal investigation in a Court of Instruction in Madrid, as La Provincia advanced. As La Voz de Lanzarote has learned, Ramón Tejera was already affected by this alleged scandal in Castilla y León. The companies he managed received tenders worth three million euros to rehabilitate command posts around the national territory, but the works were allegedly not carried out or were done halfway.
The Court of Instruction number two of Ávila already saw in 2020 indications of at least three crimes attributable to Ramón Tejera. Among them, forgery in an official document, forgery in a commercial document and embezzlement, although it was not ruled out that others could appear then.
The businessman from Lanzarote managed four companies that benefited from awards from the command posts between 2014 and 2019 for rehabilitation and painting works. These entities are Angrasurcor SL, Canarycork SL, Impermercork SL and Solocorcho SL. "To begin with, if I go to your house to paint, are you going to pay me without painting? In the Civil Guard, a boss has nothing to do with the work. A boss can give it to you, but then there are twenty people to justify the payment," Ángel Ramón Tejera defended in the same interview.
According to the Investigating Judge who investigated the case in Castilla y León, the common link of the works awarded in the Civil Guard command posts in Ávila, Castellón, Alicante, A Coruña and Albacete "were possible" thanks to the General Subdirectorate of Support of the Civil Guard, which was headed by Lieutenant General Pedro Vázquez Jarava.
Lieutenant General Pedro Vázquez Jarava would have allegedly intervened in the awarding of a minor contract and several works to paint barracks in the province of Ávila in favor of the company Angrasurcor SL, managed by the businessman from Lanzarote. These concessions alone amounted to 170,000 euros. According to the proceedings carried out, Vázquez Jarava, being Deputy Director General of Support of the Civil Guard, allegedly recommended Ramón Tejera to carry out the work.
In the preliminary proceedings opened by the judge, the "exponential increase" in billing from 2014 was highlighted. For example, in 2016, 1,300,000 euros were invoiced. Meanwhile, the command posts of Castellón, Alicante, A Coruña, Albacete or Badajoz also awarded works in favor of Ángel Ramón Tejera with the alleged intervention of the lieutenant general.
All the heads of the command post, except in the case of Badajoz, point out that the hiring of the services of the businessman from Lanzarote was allegedly preceded by reassignments of credit in favor of the affected territorial units. The General Subdirectorate of Support to the Civil Guard would have sent money to the coffers of the command posts to then make these contracts.
Among the most outstanding expenses, the proceedings include those of the barracks of Torreblanca and Vall d'Uixió in Castellón. These works were allegedly not requested by the Castellón Command, nor was the extraordinary allocation to pay for them, nor was the painting and comprehensive improvement of the barracks among its priorities.
In a statement in court in October 2019, Ángel Ramón Tejera stated that he had a personal relationship with Lieutenant General Pedro Vázquez Jarava and other officials of the Civil Guard. In the period in which the "exponential" increase in awards is being studied, between 2015 and 2018 Jarava, the lieutenant general coordinated, directed and managed the financial resources of the Corps. For these facts, the Court of Instruction number two of Ávila is investigating the lieutenant general, already retired, for the crimes of influence peddling, administrative prevarication and embezzlement.
This case began with an anonymous complaint that arrived in May 2018 at the Internal Affairs Service of the Civil Guard through an email. They then investigated awards to the company from Lanzarote for the rehabilitation works in barracks of the corps in Ávila. The case was extended nationwide, after the Investigating Judge observed indications that the same practice was carried out in other command posts outside Castilla y León.
At the same time, the Las Palmas Prosecutor's Office was investigating a crime against the Public Treasury against Angrasurcor SL. The reason was the amounts invoiced by the company to the Civil Guard command posts of Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Alicante or Algeciras. "Possibly coming from quotas allegedly defrauded from the collection of works not executed or executed partially".
Relationship with the Unión case and the Mediador case
The figure of Ángel Ramón Tejera also appeared in Operation Jable, one of the pieces that remain to be judged in the Unión case. Tejera is a cousin of the former mayor of Arrecife, Isabel Déniz, who is charged. But it does not end there, the name of the businessman Ramón Tejera, alias "Mon", also appeared in the summary of the Mediador Case for his meetings with Marco Antonio Navarro, alias "El Mediador", and General Espinosa Navas, now in provisional prison for the same plot, in a hotel in Tenerife.
