The Lanzarote businessman Ángel Ramón Tejera, alias "Mon", acknowledged before the Court of Instruction number three of Madrid that there were "amounts in invoices that did not correspond to what was actually executed" in the works carried out in the different Civil Guard barracks in Ávila, according to Agencia Efe. His statement was joined by other witnesses who admitted this alleged irregular billing.
The "discrepancy" between the works carried out in Civil Guard barracks in Ávila and the content of the invoices that were issued is one of the aspects that the Madrid Court has taken into account to keep the so-called Cuarteles case alive. "Mon" is being investigated in Madrid "on the existence of invoiced and unexecuted works".
This businessman is the administrator of four companies: Angrasurcor, Canarycork, Impermercork and Solocorcho.
In that same case, high-ranking officials of the Civil Guard are being investigated, such as the former head of the Ávila Command, Carlos Alonso Rodríguez. The Madrid Court rejected the dismissal of the case for Alonso, after observing indications of crime in the Cuarteles case.
This procedure, opened in 2021, also maintains as investigated the lieutenant general Pedro Vázquez Jarava and another businessman, and revolves around alleged irregularities in maintenance and renovation works in thirteen different commands.
In addition to the statement of "Mon", who would have been awarded works for 3.3 million euros between 2008 and 2019, the court also states in its order that from the statement of a witness "it derives" that the former head of the Ávila Command "stated" that "he was aware that invoices were being passed without having been executed" and that "he told him to do the works and then invoice as it should be", but that "they had to be invoices less than 5,000 euros".
Another witness stated that "who is inferred to be" the businessman Tejera "brought at the same time the budgets and the invoices" and that some were paid "without the works having been carried out", while another was "surprised" that "the works came awarded to a businessman" and considered that "it was not normal that at the end of the year an amount of credit was released as the one that was made, which was 120,000 euros".
According to the court, the signature of the former head of the Ávila Command appears on invoices for works in the barracks of Las Navas del Marqués and Sotillo de la Adrada issued by a worker, who stated "that he did not recognize either his signature or having made them".
He indicated that the businessman Tejera, instead of paying him for some works carried out in Badajoz, "it was done through said invoices in Ávila", and that he asked him for the data to make "himself the invoices and pass them to said Command".
The magistrates indicate that the investigation has revealed that there was an increase in credit at the end of the year to carry out minor works in various barracks in the province and state that there was "the recommendation" and subsequent "election" of a "businessman in particular with address in Lanzarote" to award the works.
"The absence of evidence of a prior study of the need for said works in the Civil Guard barracks (...), the immediacy between the presentation of some of the invoices, their approval and their presentation for collection" and that "discrepancy" between the works carried out and the content of the invoices are some of the "indications" contemplated by the court to keep the case open.
