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Rumors about the alleged collection of commissions by the brother of Isabel Díaz Ayuso for mediating in the award of health contracts from the Community of Madrid to private companies have been circulating for months in the Madrid Assembly.

The opposition has used them as political ammunition against the regional president, who until now had denied it, challenging it to be shown that there was "single proof" that from her position she could have benefited someone around her.

During the appearance that she called this Thursday to accuse the national leadership of the PP of instigating espionage against her and her family, the regional leader publicly acknowledged for the first time that

Tomás Díaz Ayuso

had "maintained commercial relations" with the firm

Priviet Sportive

S.L.

Specifically, he participated in the award of a public contract through the emergency procedure and without competition for the purchase of masks in April 2020, during the first wave of the coronavirus pandemic.

The Madrid president explained that she found out about the existence of this intermediation during a meeting with the leader of her party, Pablo Casado, last September.

"I asked my brother, who confirmed that he had maintained commercial relations with that company and that everything was completely legal. That everything is presented to the Treasury, declared and in A. As any honest commercial does," she explained.

In addition, Ayuso explained that her family member has been working as a commercial in the health sector for 26 years, long before she entered politics, and that she has never helped him "to achieve anything in his working life."

To which he added: "I encourage someone to show that I have moved to benefit him or someone from my personal environment as it is always said in a malicious way. No one will have a single proof of corruption on my part."

The mask contract

The contract in question -of which the press team of the Community of Madrid provided a copy this Thursday- was for an amount of 1,512,500 euros and is dated April 1, 2020. The justification for its award by hand was the need to buy masks for pavilion 10 of the field hospital installed in Ifema "to deal with the situation that has occurred" by Covid-19.

Detail of the contract to the company Priviet Sportive, SLEL MUNDO

What Ayuso did not detail in his appearance, in which he did not admit questions, was the amount that his brother received for mediating in said operation.

In Genoa they had previously estimated it at 286,000 euros, almost 19% of the total amount of the invoice, although they recognized that they had no documentary support to support this statement and that for this reason they had not gone to the Prosecutor's Office to report it.

The Madrid president argued that the contract is supervised by the General Intervention of the Community of Madrid, which passed through its Governing Council under the accountability format and is posted on the Transparency Portal.

She also said that it was signed and promoted by a doctor, who at that time was the head of the Madrid Health Service (Sermas), although in reality the person who signed it was the Deputy Minister of Health Assistance,

Ana Dávila

.

Its award, as Ayuso defended, occurred "at a time of pandemic when all administrations were looking for masks during the first wave and there was a lack of medical supplies throughout the world."

"Neither my government nor I have intervened to award that or any other contract to anyone around me (...). I have not allocated time or resources to anything other than Madrid. And the results are there," he concluded. he.

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