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The Secretary of State for Security, Rafael Pérez, has accused the Ministry of the Interior under the Government of Mariano Rajoy of having "covered" the Cuarteles case by closing an investigation that would only be reopened two years later as soon as Pedro Sánchez arrived at La Moncloa. Pérez has also taken advantage of his appearance before the Interior Commission of Congress to defend the former director of the Civil Guard, María Gámez.

The Secretary of State explained that the case arose in 2016 when there was knowledge of a series of dubious works in which the businessman Ángel Ramón Tejera always acted through three different companies with only one registered in the registry of construction companies. Some works, he said, were billed twice and others had not been carried out.

Internal Affairs, in charge of the investigation, "detected important irregularities that pointed to Lieutenant General Vázquez Jarava." However, "surprisingly" Vázquez Jarava was allowed to issue a report asking that the case "not be referred to the prosecutor's office." It was then, always according to the story of Rafael Pérez, the general director of the Civil Guard, José Manuel Holgado Merino, "ordered the file to be filed" concluding that there was no reason for the investigation of the aforementioned works contracts. As a result, the then Minister of the Interior, Juan Ignacio Zoido, maintained his full confidence in Vázquez Jaraba.

Two years later, in June 2018, "while the motion of censure was being substantiated in Congress" by Pedro Sánchez against Mariano Rajoy, Internal Affairs received an "anonymous communication" pointing out irregularities in the command of Ávila. The new Ministry of the Interior, already under socialist command with Fernando Grande-Marlaska at the head, "reactivated the investigation and it was found that it was nothing but an extension of the case that had been paralyzed in the stage of the PP".

The conclusion, according to the Secretary of State, is that "the Cuarteles case began to be investigated in 2016 and was reactivated in 2018, despite the attempt to cover it up by the political leaders of the PP." "With the governments of the PP," said Pérez, "the investigations are closed and with the socialist government, they are reopened."

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  • Mariano Rajoy
  • PP
  • Civil Guard
  • Pedro Sanchez
  • Ministry of the Interior
  • Juan Ignacio Zoido
  • Fernando Grande-Marlaska
  • Congress of Deputies
  • Mediator Case