Almeida hides behind the fact that the anti-corruption agency does not investigate him or his relatives, but admits that he talked to one of the commission agents.

Madrid Mayor Jose Luis Martინnez Almeida this Wednesday tried to get rid of an anti-corruption probe into a € 6 million commission imposed by two businessmen who won a finger contract for delivering sanitary supplies to municipal employees during the worst period. Pandemic. The complaint states that one of the agents of the two commissions condemned by the specialized department of the prosecutor’s office contacted the council through Almeida’s relative. Municipal sources acknowledge that this is his cousin Carlos, a lawyer by profession, with whom Mary maintains a very good relationship and even shares leisure trips and vacations. “Neither I nor my relative have ever called the prosecutor’s office,” said the mayor, from whom opposition groups demanded an immediate explanation. Almeida admitted that one of the businessmen, Luis Medina, the son of Nati Abaskal and a regular in the pink press, contacted his relative to find out who to contact at City Hall because he knew the formula for sending medical supplies. China.

As he noted last Friday when elDiario.es reported that prosecutors had closed the operations from the municipal funeral company, the mayor reiterated this Wednesday that “neither the council nor anyone working in the council is an object. On the complaint filed by the prosecution. And he announced that the Madrid City Council “intends to appear in court immediately to take all appropriate action”.

“We learned through the prosecutor’s office that a complaint was filed against the Madrid City Council for fraud. “The first thing to note is that this complaint is directed exclusively against two people who are outside the Madrid City Council,” explained Almeida, who stressed that “neither the City Council nor any person working in the Madrid City Council is an object. Complaint and that is important to say. ” “In your case, the City Council is affected.

“Neither I nor my relatives called the prosecutor’s office during the investigation. “It does not make us the subject of a lawsuit directed exclusively at two people,” he said, referring to the two businessmen who received a substantial commission for closing those contracts, the aforementioned Luis Medina and his then-friend Alberto Luceno. Ceron.

On Wednesday afternoon, Almeida’s spokeswoman said that “the mayor’s relative did not know Luis Medina” and that “she was contacted by a third party.” He explained that “this member of the family provided the same e-mail that was given to anyone who contacted the City Council for the sale of medical equipment. Every company has to go the same way. The version, which the mayor himself gradually ratified in front of the media. As he said, “he is contacted by a common acquaintance, where he indicates that Louis Medina is interested in sending a message to the city council that he had the opportunity to provide medical supplies. My relative limited himself to sending him an e-mail from the City Council of Madrid stating that this is the official channel where they received the endless offers that were made on a daily basis.

In her public speech, Almeida admitted that she once spoke to Medina to thank her for donating 183,000 masks, as she did to all donors, she said. He said he had previously known he was being investigated for anti-corruption charges over a € 1 million commission from his then-friend, businessman Alberto Luceno Seron, which prosecutors have confirmed. The office also took in five million euros, out of the eleven million accrued in the sanitary material of the City Council.