The Prosecutor's Office archives a third investigation after the complaint of the PP of Madrid for the Government's COVID contracts

The investigations focused on the purchase of 92 million gloves from a company for 9.4 million euros

MADRID, 2 Mar. (EUROPA PRESS) -

The Anti-Corruption Prosecutor's Office has archived a third line of investigation, of the seven opened as a result of the complaint filed last April by the PP of Madrid for a series of emergency contracts carried out by the Government in relation to the coronavirus pandemic. Specifically, it is about the investigations for the purchase from a company of 92 million gloves for a value of 9.4 million euros.

The decree, signed on February 1 by the anti-corruption prosecutor Luis Pastor Motta, and to which Europa Press has had access, agrees to file the investigation opened for "possible irregularities that may have been committed in some contracts related to the awards of supply of sanitary material, related to COVID-19, carried out to the Member of the Tribe society by the Directorate of the National Institute of Sanitary Management (INGESA) of the Ministry of Health".

Pastor Motta explains that, specifically, the contract dealt with the purchase of 52 million nitrile gloves for an amount of 5,564,000 euros, in a first batch; and another 40 million nitrile gloves, for 3,880,000 euros, in another batch.

Likewise, it recalls that the investigations were opened after a complaint made by Alfonso Serrano, deputy and spokesman for the Popular Parliamentary Group in the Madrid Assembly, for "alleged irregularities in emergency contracts related to COVID-19, formalized by the General Administration of the State and the institutional public sector, as well as other irregularities that would affect contracts and the granting of public subsidies, resulting in a total of 13 denounced contracts".

Anti-corruption "agreed to initiate seven separate and differentiated investigation procedures in response to the supposedly favored companies, considering that 'the common thread in exposing the facts that make up the irregularities that are denounced are the winning companies, regardless of the body adjudicator'".

Last July, the Prosecutor's Office already closed the investigation into the aid granted by the Government to the company Industrias Plásticas Playbol, owned by the parents of the chief executive, Pedro Sánchez, by not appreciating "reasonably credible indications of the commission of crime in the facts" denounced by the PP in the Madrid Assembly.

And, in October, it did the same with the investigation into the alleged irregularities in the granting of European funds to Beedigital, a company allegedly linked to the husband of the First Vice President of the Government and Minister of Economic Affairs and Digital Transformation, Nadia Calviño, before the "absence of evidence".