The Central Operational Unit of the Civil Guard has arrested five people as part of actions declared secret and linked to alleged illegal hiring, official sources confirm. Among those arrested are the president of the Provincial Council of Almería, Javier Aureliano García (PP), the vice president and his right-hand man, Fernando Giménez, and the mayor of Fines since 2003 and also of the PP, Rodrigo Sánchez Simón. The officers are searching the homes of the inmates.
Both Giménez and Sánchez Simón are defendants in a case investigating the collection of illegal commissions of between 200,000 and 400,000 euros for the award of a contract to supply medical supplies worth two million euros. The investigation focuses on the contract for masks, protective suits and gloves that Aureliano signed on April 8, 2020, in full confinement, with the company Azor Corporate Ibérica, owned by Kilian López, whose investigation into drug trafficking, arms sales and money laundering by a Barcelona judge led to that award.
On June 15, 2021, agents from the Central Operational Unit (UCO) of the Civil Guard raided the Provincial Council of Almería and arrested the then third vice-president and head of the Urban Planning area, Óscar Liria. The epicenter of this conspiracy is Liria, who is the granddaughter of the Fines Councilor, whose 17 suspects finished making statements before the judge investigating the case last March, almost four years after the investigation began.
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