• Interior The ghost of Roldán haunts Marlaska, questioned by three cases of corruption in the Civil Guard
  • Internal Investigation allowed the resignation of the expert of the 'Barracks case' despite the opposition of the judge, the prosecutor and the Legal Profession

The Minister of the Interior, Fernando Grande-Marlaska, has attributed to the PP the corruption in the already known as Cuarteles case, maintaining that his efforts, he insisted, "prevented the knowledge of the judicial authorities" of the alleged irregularities that could have occurred in the awarding and execution of works in 13 commanderies under the command of Lieutenant General Pedro Vázquez Jarava, accused in the case.

The Minister of the Interior has pronounced in these terms during an appearance at his own request before the Interior Commission after transcending to public opinion the matter instructed by a magistrate in Madrid.

The barracks "is a case of corruption that affects the Popular Party," Marlaska said. The minister has exposed a chronology that, in his opinion, shows that the PP "stopped the investigation".

Thus, he recalled that it was in 2016 when Internal Affairs of the Civil Guard initiated an investigation into the minor contracts or cash advances that led the builder Ángel Ramón 'Mon' Tejera – linked to the Mediator case – to invoice 2.11 million euros to the Civil Guard, in works that "had experienced an unusual and considerable cost in their billing during the period 2014-2016".

Grande-Marlaska has indicated that the director general of the Civil Guard during the last stage of Mariano Rajoy, José Manuel Holgado, ordered to paralyze the investigation that Internal Affairs was developing of the Barracks case.

That PP administration committed "serious anomalies, to put it mildly." It was allowed, he denounced, "to be the then responsible for the Support Command of the Civil Guard, who was none other than Lieutenant General Jarava himself, who responded to the Internal Affairs report. They shelved it."

The minister has assured that from the Ministry of the Interior of Juan Ignacio Zoido took "an unprecedented resolution, not to say unpresentable in a State of Law. In my view it is very serious: the political head of the Civil Guard orders to stop an investigation of Internal Affairs ".

In the case, 193 works worth 3.3 million euros are investigated in 13 commanders of the Civil Guard. The events occurred between March 2014 and April 2019. Many of these irregularities occurred in barracks under the command of Vázquez Jarava. Marlaska has said that Internal Affairs raised a report with its suspicions and Jarava himself was allowed to respond and did not refer to the Prosecutor's Office.

As he stressed, Holgado issued an "unprecedented and unpresentable" resolution in which he ordered the archiving of the proceedings "because new elements of judgment are not necessary" and has described the movement directly as "folder".

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