Interior Interior recognizes that it has been a year without appointing an expert to investigate corruption in the Civil Guard: "It is unfeasible"

The Ministry of the Interior has acknowledged that it has been a year without being able to designate an expert for the judicial investigation into the allegedly phantom works in 12 Civil Guard headquarters tendered to a builder related to the Mediator case

Interior Interior recognizes that it has been a year without appointing an expert to investigate corruption in the Civil Guard: "It is unfeasible"

The Ministry of the Interior has acknowledged that it has been a year without being able to designate an expert for the judicial investigation into the allegedly phantom works in 12 Civil Guard headquarters tendered to a builder related to the Mediator case. Ministerial sources thus corroborate the information revealed by EL MUNDO that the department headed by Fernando Grande-Marlaska has spent nearly 12 months without naming a professional and that finally, as this newspaper reveals, the magistrate has had to go to another ministry, that of the Treasury, in search of help.

In a statement, the Ministry admits that the appointment of this professional, it says, "is unfeasible" and blames the magistrate for the delays in the investigation by not having notified that the expert work was "45 times higher than the one communicated in a principle" in the first and only attempt that had to have a professional of these characteristics and that was unsuccessful. On March 31, 2022, the instructor had already requested an expert opinion in order to move forward. The General Sub-directorate for Planning and Management of Infrastructures and Means, dependent on the Interior, only had one person with a degree in that area, who also came from the Civil Guard area. Her appointment as an expert is communicated to the court on April 1, 2022. On the 11th, the magistrate quotes her.

On April 26, the expert appeared in the Investigating Court, but - and again the Ministry of the Interior unloaded against the judge - "no documentation was provided." Weeks later the expert gives up carrying out the work. «On June 9, 2022, after receiving all the documentation from the court and verifying that the volume to be assessed was practically 45 times the amount initially reported, and given the material and technical impossibility of carrying out the expert opinion, the expert appointed informs that it can not carry out the order. The case therefore continued without an expert, the fundamental element for the magistrate to advance in her investigation. Without this proof, the matter remains in a dead end. In November, five months after the resignation of the specialist technique, Interior communicated that she no longer has qualified experts.

The investigations have been paralyzed from June to November without news from the Interior. "The General Subdirectorate for Planning and Management of Infrastructures and Means for Security sends an extensive report to the court explaining the lack of qualified technicians, as well as the absence of a territorial support structure, which makes it unfeasible to access the judicial request." Meanwhile, in the absence of solutions from the Grande-Marlaska area, Interior Affairs communicated to the magistrate on October 2 that the Heritage area, dependent on the Ministry of Finance, could carry out the agreed expert opinions. On January 26, the magistrate requests that a professional be appointed. Interior also denies that it has hindered the investigation.

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