THE European Public Prosecutor’s Workplace will examine whether or not Spain’s Well being Ministry grossly overpaid for Chinese language disposable PPE robes in the course of the early levels of the Covid-19 pandemic.
500,000 disposable robes had been purchased at 60 instances above the market worth from the Weihai Textile Group utilizing EU funds given to Spain, whereas less expensive native choices had been rejected.
Prosecutors Laura Pellon and Olga Muñoz will probe whether or not there was any prevarication and embezzlement of European funds.
The cash got here from Europe’s FEDER fund underneath an emergency contract instigated by the federal government.
The Partido Well-liked referred the matter to Spain’s Anti-Corruption prosecutor in April.
The European Prosecutors are trying into the ‘alleged irregularities within the award of a contract for a charge apparently a lot greater than the market value’.
The Chinese language firm charged €16.70 per PPE robe however two Spanish corporations who didn’t win the contract provided costs of simply €0.32 and €0.27 per robe.
The Well being Ministry spent €10.1 million on the Chinese language deal versus both €139,000 or €163,000 on the Spanish choices.
European Prosecutors additionally need to know why an extra €842,364 was spent on prime of the €10.1 million sum on ‘charges, tariffs and one other 10%’.
They are saying no documentary proof to justify what the additional sum offered.
There’s additionally no reference made to the Weihai firm within the ultimate contract together with its handle, with a word that the contract winner ‘could be situated in Spain’.
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