One of the high-ranking Civil Guard officers investigated in the Cuarteles case has asked the judge to take his statement so that he can explain that he has not committed any irregularities. It was the lieutenant colonel, Carlos Alonso Rodríguez, former head of the Ávila Command.
According to Vozpópuli and confirmed to EFE by sources from the Superior Court of Justice of Madrid (TSJM), the head of the Court of Instruction number 3 of Madrid has recently received a request for a statement from the police chief and has not yet ruled on it.
Carlos Alonso Rodríguez is being investigated in this case along with Lieutenant General Pedro Vázquez Jarava, who was responsible for the General Support Sub-directorate of the Civil Guard, and with businessman Ángel Ramón Tejera de León, known as "Mon" and whose name appears in the summary of the Mediator case, and another businessman.
Magistrate Isabel Durantez is investigating whether, as denounced by Internal Affairs of the armed institute, there were irregularities in the awarding of works to thirteen command posts throughout Spain, which were not carried out or were partially carried out after being awarded to Tejera de León for a total value of 3.3 million euros, between 2008 and 2019.
This judicial investigation, which started in Ávila and ended in Madrid, has been stalled for eight months awaiting the appointment of an expert to prepare a report to determine whether the works carried out are in accordance with the invoices.
Recently, the Provincial Court of Madrid refused to dismiss the case for one of the four defendants, precisely Carlos Alonso Rodríguez, arguing the "discrepancy" between the works carried out in Civil Guard barracks in Ávila and the content of the invoices that were issued, especially after the statement of the Canary Islands businessman in which he admitted that alleged irregular billing.
