Judge Isabel Durántez, who is investigating in Madrid the alleged irregularities in the awarding of works in thirteen Civil Guard headquarters, has summoned as investigated on September 20 the lieutenant colonel Carlos Alonso Rodríguez, former head of the Ávila Headquarters who asked to testify voluntarily. The businessman from Lanzarote Ángel Ramón Tejera, alias Mon, is also being investigated in the case.
The statement of Lieutenant Colonel Carlos Alonso, investigated in the case, was one of the steps that was pending in the so-called Cuarteles case since last May 17, when it was suspended due to the strike of officials of the Administration of Justice.
The head of the Court of Instruction 3 of Madrid, Isabel Durántez, has issued a provision, which EFE has had access to, in which she agrees to hear the lieutenant colonel as investigated and also summons the other three defendants to hold the hearing in which the parties must specify the charges in view of the future trial by jury.
This is a hearing provided for in article 25 of the Law of the Jury Court, in which all parties are summoned to specify the charges or to request the dismissal, and to request the steps they deem necessary.
The judge convened this hearing after extending the case to a possible crime of bribery for the four defendants, who were already being investigated for the alleged crimes of continued forgery in an official document and embezzlement.
Along with Carlos Alonso and Ángel Ramón Tejera there are two more investigated, Lieutenant General Pedro Vázquez Jarava, who was responsible for the General Subdirectorate of Support of the Civil Guard; and another businessman.
The defenses of these four defendants had appealed the holding of this hearing considering that it is not yet the appropriate procedural moment because there are still steps to be taken that have been agreed, such as the statement of Carlos Alonso or the expertise of the works in question. In this case, the magistrate is investigating whether, as denounced by Internal Affairs of the armed institute, there were irregularities in the awarding of works of thirteen headquarters 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.
The Civil Guard headquarters affected would be Murcia, Albacete, Algeciras, Alicante, Ávila, Badajoz, Castellón, Huelva, Jaén, A Coruña, Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Toledo and Valladolid.
The case is pending the preparation of an expert report to determine whether the works undertaken are in accordance with the invoices.