The Canarian Government of Angel Victor Torres paid the company Soluciones de Gestión, linked to the Koldo plot, 560% more than the market price for masks. This payment was formalized after discovering that the material acquired by the Canarian Health Service (SCS), under the direction of Conrado Domínguez, did not meet the agreed technical specifications (they were not FFP2 and therefore could not be used in hospitals).
The contract, awarded in April 2022 by emergency means (without competition and without advertising), allocated 6.8 million euros to Management Solutions for the delivery of 2.75 million FFP2 masks for hospital use. However, the risk prevention service of a hospital discovered that several masks did not meet the necessary filtration leveland the National Centre for Protective Equipment (CNMP) confirmed that a large part of these masks were not FFP2.
What happened in the Canary Islands is similar to the Balearic Islands, where The Government of Francina Armengol also did not terminate the contract with Management Solutions. In the Balearic case, The company was even endorsed as trustworthy so that other public bodies could hire it.
The Government of Víctor Torres later reached an agreement with Management Solutions: since the masks were FFP1 and not FFP2, The company reduced the initial price from 2.5 euros to 0.845 euros per unit, market price in April. In total, the 837,800 defective masks, intended to be used as surgical masks, were paid for 707,518 euros. The agreement was signed by Conrado Domínguez on November 3, 2020, as detailed this Thursday They got up.
In that same month, the Ministry of Health was working on the Framework Agreement, formalized on November 24, 2020, where The average price of surgical masks was 0.15 euros per unitThat is, the Torres Government paid 560% more than the market price for the Soluciones de Gestión masks, which did not meet the requirements to be FFP2. Instead of terminating the contract, the company involved in the scheme earned another 700,000 euros, bringing the total paid by the Canary Islands Government to Soluciones de Gestión to more than 12 million euros.
Conrado Domínguez is also being investigated by the European Public Prosecutor’s Office for awarding a four million euro contract to a car company that never delivered the material; held meetings with the plot’s mediator Tito Berni and approved the 12 million euros in awards to Soluciones de Gestión. Domínguez refused to explain his version in the Commission of Inquiry into the Koldo case, presenting a burofax excusing himself in his statement as a witness in the Koldo case in April of this year, under legal warning not to reveal details of the secret actions.
Dominguez, a trusted person of Angel Victor Torres, current Minister of Territorial Policy, He also refused to show his mobile phone to check if it contained Koldo García’s number..