Different bodies of the Civil Guard awarded a total of 193 works to a businessman from Lanzarote. The administrator Ángel Ramón Tejera, alias "Mon", received 3.3 million euros from thirteen command posts of the armed institute.
As revealed by the Periódico de España, of the total money received by the businessman from Lanzarote, at least half a million euros "was moved thanks to retail" in 120 different contracts. For this, he would have used a mechanism available in the Civil Guard to directly award expenses of less than 5,000 euros.
The preliminary proceedings carried out by the General Directorate of Internal Affairs of the Civil Guard, regarding the Cuarteles case, revealed that the invoices for the rehabilitation works were issued by four companies: Angrasurcor, Solocorcho, Canarycork or Impermercork. The four companies were in the name of Ángel Ramón Tejera and, in some cases, also of a partner.
According to the aforementioned report from Internal Affairs, the companies of the Lanzarote businessman were "almost always" the "only" ones consulted to carry out these works. Highlighting the awards in the command of Santa Cruz de Tenerife, where "in most cases", "a single offer" is requested, with two companies in the name of "Mon" receiving these offers.
In addition, some invoices were sent by a self-employed worker, who maintained an employment relationship with "Mon".
In 2016, the year in which Ángel Ramón Tejera's companies invoiced the most money to the Civil Guard barracks, the beginning of the investigation in Ávila pointed out that "the temporal proximity" in the awards "stands out". All of them were processed as minor contracts.
In the proceedings sent to the Court of Instruction number two of Ávila, awards of different contracts for works in the same barracks were detected. For example, in January 2016, two contracts were awarded for works carried out in barracks in Jaén, in April, three contracts were awarded for works carried out in Santa Cruz de Tenerife.
In the month of July 2016, the awards increased. The companies of the Lanzarote businessman received a total of seven contracts in this month alone, all of them divided between the commands of Algeciras, Alicante and, again, Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Castellón and Badajoz.
More than one million euros were awarded through minor contracts.
In August, another six works were awarded among four commands. In total, more than one million euros were awarded through minor contracts.
Then, the Court of Instruction number two of Ávila saw indications of the alleged crimes of embezzlement and document forgery.
Recommended by Vázquez Jarava
The case was transferred to the Courts of Instruction of Madrid because two senior officials of the Civil Guard were being investigated: Lieutenant Colonel Carlos Alonso Rodríguez, former head of the Command of Ávila, and Lieutenant General Pedro Vázquez Jarava, head of the General Support Subdirectorate of the Civil Guard.
In his statement in court in June 2019, Lieutenant Colonel Carlos Alonso Rodríguez stated that Lieutenant General Pedro Vázquez Jarava recommended Ángel Ramón Tejera's companies to carry out the work.
At the same time, the Prosecutor's Office of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria was investigating a possible crime of tax fraud for which "Mon" will be in the dock on April 12.
