At the end of November, the ringleaders of the alleged corruption plot in the sale of medical supplies intensified their conversations – which were tapped by the Civil Guard – to try to resolve the claim of 2.6 million euros from the Government of the Balearic Islands. to the front company that sold defective masks.

In one of those calls, whose transcription appears in one of the Civil Guard reports to which La Vanguardia has had access, the person considered the mastermind of the plot by the investigators, Juan Carlos Cueto, comments to another of those investigated that “the problem is ‘the lady'”, who “was once president of here”, alluding to Francina Armengol.

The Balearic derivative of the case began on April 25, 2020, with an email in which 1.4 million masks were offered, which arrived a day later, for a global price of 3.7 million euros. On June 8, a report from the National Center for Protective Means certified in a technical analysis that the masks did not meet the requirements of those known as FPP2, so their removal and storage in a community center was ordered. The masks were never used and almost all of them have expired.

The first official report on the mask issue does not arrive until July 6, 2023, the same day Prohens is elected president; therefore, the last day that Francina Armengol holds office. The deputy director of the purchasing center makes a resolution proposal to claim the 2.6 million that were overpaid since the masks cost 0.42 euros each and not 2.5 euros. This proposal is what gives rise to the opening of a file to claim the amount, on August 24, 2024, which the new Government signs. From there the pressure from the company begins so that the file expires due to administrative silence. The Popular Party maintains that it is an eight-month period; the PSOE, which is six.

And it is with the date of January 24 as the horizon for the deadline to expire, when the plot moves to solve the matter. According to researchers, there are two groups: both popular and socialist, although they all deny it.

The surprise of the ringleaders of the plot is extracted from the telephone taps when they receive notification of the claim. One of the ringleaders says that he intends to demand that García “ask the other moron who was there before, what happened.” Koldo “had no idea what the issue was about” and “was freaking out.” In this context, Koldo García conveyed to Cueto that he would try to “also touch the others, who also have a very good relationship.” For the Civil Guard, it could refer to the current PP Government. After this, Cueto told Rotaeche “to Better we can also work so that they forget the executive issue.

This double game that the former advisor undertakes even confuses the alleged mastermind of the plot, Juan Carlos Cueto: “But… Does what you are going to do make sense?… I ask… because if we are going to hit blind…”, is included in the report.

Fearing that the scandal could reach public opinion, in another call at the end of November, businessman Íñigo Rotaeche asked Cueto if he wanted to “politicize the Balearic Islands,” to which the alleged leader responded: “I don’t know.” , Iñigo, […] everyone is upset, but it doesn’t get them anywhere either… the problem is The Lady (by Francina Armengol) who is in the spotlight now.”

It is at this point that the case seemed to take a turn yesterday when a record was revealed in which Koldo García boasted to Cueto during a call that he had managed to contact Miguel Tellado, spokesperson for the Popular Party in the Congress of the Deputies, and “Alberto” [without the researchers daring to give a last name] to meet the next day. The Genoa management flatly rejected that this meeting would take place. To date, no part of the summary in which this alleged appointment is attested has emerged, despite the close monitoring that the UCO carried out on Koldo García.

A few days later, García called Cueto to tell him that “everything is on the right track,” while asking him for maximum discretion with the matter because he was going to pull his strings. Seven days later, on December 14, Ábalos’s former bodyguard informed him that the matter of the file “was more than done.”

Investigators suspect that the plot believed it would solve the problem, since before the deadline the Civil Guard stopped finding communications that addressed the issue. However, the executive of Marga Prohens insists that the file is still valid and announced a claim