The European Public Prosecutor’s Office against Fraud has decided to close the case on the alleged embezzlement of european funds in the supply contract for 250,000 masks FFP2-3 for 1,512,500 euros to the Community of Madrid. An open cause around the commissions he charged Tomas Diaz Ayusobrother of the Madrid president, Isabel Diaz Ayuso.
The community organization concludes that in this purchase process, a total of 1.5 million euros of which the president’s brother received a commission of 283,000 eurosthere is no evidence of overpricing: “It has not been proven that the price paid for the masks was disproportionate attention to the quality of the material offered and delivered or that it had suffered an undue increase derived from the intervention of people outside the company”, it says in a statement.
“The procedure has been filed for not having sufficient evidence of the commission of a crime,” reports the European Fraud Prosecutor on a decision is made with the agreement of the Spanish representative in the European Public Prosecutor’s Office, Concepción Sabadell, who was also the former Anti-Corruption prosecutor in the Gürtel case.
“In particular, It has not been proven that the price paid for the masks was disproportionate attention to the quality of the material offered and delivered or that it had suffered an undue increase derived from the intervention of people outside the company. Finally, It has been proven that the transportation was paid for by the winning company and not for the Madrid’s community», concludes the European Public Prosecutor’s Office
In April 2020the Community of Madrid awarded 1.5 million euros to the company Priviet Sportive, owned by Daniel Alcazar, childhood friend of the family, to buy masks. The internal power struggle in the PP revealed that the brother of the regional president had intervened in the operation and received a commission from the company for his role in the entire process.
The Community of Madrid recognized that Tomás Díaz Ayuso received a total of 283,000 euros from this company, but only 67,000 were attributable to this operation.
In June of last year the Anti-Corruption Prosecutor Spanish decided to file the case on understanding, among other things, that it had not been proven that Isabel Díaz Ayuso had intervened in the process to benefit her brother. “He has not intervened in the procedure” company recruiter who paid a commission to his own brother.
“There is no direct or indirect intervention of the President of the Community of Madrid in this file, nor – as has already been said – of the mediation on his behalf of Mr. Tomás Díaz Ayuso before any official or authority,” he concluded in the decree of archive the department headed by Alejandro Luzón. According to Anticorruption, Ayuso I didn’t even have to refrain.
