The vice mayor and acting mayor of Madrid, Inma Sanz, yesterday estimated at “approximately 300,000” the fines affected by the “possible fraud” by the company in charge, in the delivery of notifications, which did not really reach their recipients.
According to the digital ‘Voz Pópuli’ and confirmed by Sanz, the City Council has filed a complaint against the company ‘RD Post’, the City Council’s postal provider between 2021 and 2023, for “possible simulations” in the sending of notifications that had not been issued. In fact.
The vice mayor explained that the fraud would affect 300,000 notifications “fundamentally” related to “fines” and the “scope of the Tax Agency” corresponding to the months between April and September 2023, and the approximate cost of the “irregular or not made” notifications. “would be close to a million euros.”
The alleged fraud was detected during an ex officio review by the IT technicians of the Madrid City Council (IAM), coinciding with the procedures for a new tender. Later, according to Sanz, an “external expert” endorsed the hypothesis.
Regarding reparation for those affected, he clarified that he will “act ex officio so that no Madrid resident is affected” and that any situation will be “resolved” by the City Council because the notifications are “perfectly identified.”
He added that a “fine job” has been done to see “exactly” the conditions and that the legal services are going to work with “all the legal instruments” in both ways, both that of “recovering every last euro that could have been defraud”, as well as “guaranteeing” citizens that “their rights will not be affected in any case”.
