The Court of Instruction number two of Madrid maintains an open investigation into the invoicing of works of rehabilitation and painting in Civil Guard barracks throughout the national territory. At the epicenter of the alleged plot are the awards that from the Armed Institute were granted from the high spheres of the Body to the businessman from Lanzarote Ángel Ramón Tejera de León and a partner.
Tejera de León is a contractor from Lanzarote who appears in passing in the summary of the alleged corruption plot of the Mediator case, where he is not under investigation and which is being investigated in Tenerife. It is this other cause that led to him being publicly renamed as Mon. That is the nickname by which he was known in the environment of the Civil Guard, and which came to light through a conversation between the former general of the Civil Guard Francisco Javier Espinosa Navas (the only one of the 12 investigated who remains in provisional prison) and the businessman himself, reflected in the summary of the Mediator.
The Cuarteles case and a trial for an alleged crime against the Treasury
The businessman from Lanzarote maintains two open judicial fronts: the Cuarteles case (Madrid) and a trial for an alleged crime against the Public Treasury (Las Palmas). This second crime for alleged tax fraud was to be tried on April 12, but the case had to be postponed due to the incompatibility of a lawyer to attend on that date.
The case of the works in the Civil Guard barracks that is being followed in Madrid investigates the works invoiced by the businessman from Lanzarote. Ángel Ramón Tejera de León invoiced 3.3 million euros to the Armed Institute between 2008 and 2019 for works "presumably not carried out or carried out halfway".
The contractor is in charge of painting and waterproofing buildings and is the administrator of four different companies. One of them based in Madrid, others in municipalities of Lanzarote such as San Bartolomé or Teguise. Solocorcho, Canarycork, Impermercork, and Angrasurcor are these four companies, but not the only ones with which Ramón Tejera de León invoiced works in the barracks.
These facts motivated the Internal Affairs unit of the Civil Guard to open an investigation against Ángel Ramón Tejera, for being a partner and administrator of these companies, as well as a self-employed worker linked to him.
Already then, the Provincial Prosecutor's Office of Las Palmas was investigating Tejera for an alleged crime against the Public Treasury, carried out by the company Angrasurcor SL. Within the framework of this anti-fraud operation, the amounts invoiced in the Civil Guard Headquarters of Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Alicante or Algeciras were inspected.
The Public Prosecutor's Office suspected that "the quotas allegedly defrauded could come from the collection of these works not executed or executed partially". Within the framework of this same cause, two senior officials of the Civil Guard are being investigated: Lieutenant Colonel Carlos Alonso Rodríguez, who was responsible for the Civil Guard Headquarters in Ávila in the period of the awards and the Lieutenant General of the Armed Institute Pedro Vázquez Jarava, former head of the General Subdirectorate of Support of the Civil Guard.
Why is Ángel Ramón Tejera being investigated?
The case that is being investigated today against Ángel Ramón Tejera de León started from an anonymous complaint filed with the Secretary of State for Security in which the alleged irregularities in the contracting of the companies in the name of Tejera de León for the works carried out in the Ávila Headquarters were pointed out.
That complaint passed the filter of the Operations Section of the General Staff of the General Directorate of the Civil Guard and ended up in the Internal Affairs Unit.
3.3 million euros invoiced for works "presumably not carried out or carried out halfway"
The case that began in Ávila for this anonymous complaint ended up uncovering "practices of a similar nature" in other Civil Guard Headquarters. The preliminary proceedings were carried out by the Court of Instruction number 2 of Ávila, where Tejera de León was attributed the alleged crimes of embezzlement and documentary falsification. In addition, the possible tax crime investigated in Las Palmas. In total, he received 193 awards in works between four of his companies and the works invoiced by the businessman with whom he maintained a working relationship. The amount of these awards reached 2,964,761 euros.
Only between 2008 and 2012, Tejera invoiced, between three different companies, about 338,000 euros for works of the barracks of the Civil Guard Headquarters of Tenerife. In total, the figure amounts to 3.3 million euros. In the works of Tenerife, the works were invoiced through Lancelot Pintura y Decoración SL and Inversiones Andelmar SL.
A report prepared by the Internal Affairs Unit of the Armed Institute highlighted that there were "rational indications" that indicated that the modus operandi of Ávila occurred in other headquarters. In this line, he pointed out that before carrying out the contracting, "at least in certain cases", the bodies of the Civil Guard had been provided with the respective budget credits, "all at the request of the General Subdirectorate of Support of the Civil Guard", directed then by Vázquez Jarava.
This police instruction considered in 2020 that Vázquez Jarava could have committed an alleged crime of influence peddling, administrative prevarication and embezzlement.
In July 2017, Carlos Alonso, still as head of the Ávila Headquarters, responded about the works awarded to Ángel Ramón Tejera de León and justified that a minor work worth 49,980 euros was awarded to the company Angrasurcor SL, despite having its fiscal headquarters in Lanzarote, because "no company was found" in the province of Ávila that could do the works "requested urgently and with the special products for waterproofing".
The friendship of the Canarian businessman with senior officials of the Civil Guard is no secret. He himself has recognized it on several occasions, including in an interview granted to the La Provincia newspaper.
In it, he assured that he has been working since 2000 for the Civil Guard. "Until today, of course, they have already taken out my name and from there I can't do anything else." At the same time, he insisted that he had never declared in court for the Unión case, the Mediator case or the Cuarteles case.
"I was judged by the press for being Isabel Déniz's cousin"
Unión Case
"I was judged by the press for being Isabel Déniz's cousin", Ángel Ramón Tejera defended himself during an interview with La Provincia. The businessman is the cousin of the former mayor of Arrecife, of the Independent Party of Lanzarote (PIL) and later of Coalición Canaria, investigated in the framework of Operation Jable, the last piece of the Unión case that is pending trial and that is expected to be held next April.
This editorial staff has tried, without success, to obtain the version of Ángel Ramón Tejera de León.
