The Balearic Government of the PP has filed a total of 528 files that were in the hands of the Office of Prevention and Fight against Corruption (OAIB), promoted by law in 2016, during the first mandate of the left -wing pact led by the socialist Francina Armengol, and fulminated last year by popular and vox. The Minister of Presidency and Public Administrations, Antònia Maria Serellas, has recognized on Wednesday that, following the prescribed by the Law of Creation of the Transparency Registry that implied the liquidation of the Anti -Corruption Office, they have been delivered to the Balearic Parliament for its custody about 300 Files already finished while 228 that were pending initiators have ended up expired. Only two of the initiated procedures continue to be processed as agreed.
It should be remembered that, in March 2024, conservatives and extreme right turned Balearicas into the first autonomy to eliminate a control body of these characteristics and swimming against the battle opened by international organizations against degradation and political debasement. With the votes of PP and Vox, the Autonomous Chamber ended an entity promoted with the aim of preventing and investigating, among other, possible cases of use or fraudulent destination of public funds. Its suppression was the creation of a registration of transparency and control of the heritage of public office of the Balearic Islands, dependent on the Parliament, where the files of the old anti -corruption office have been deposited. Of course, with reserved character, which implies that the information ceases to be public. Any type of access will also be registered.
During his appearance in the Institutional and General Affairs Commission, the Minister of the Presidency has denied, with everything, any type of interference in the processing of the files of the extinct office. “The Government does not look who or what is denounced,” he said. He has admitted, in this sense, that he has had to ask the technicians the state of the files and their different procedures. Being them has once again defended the liquidation of the office for its “lack of transparency” and for assuming a “duplicity of functions” regarding other organizations such as judicial authorities, the Prosecutor’s Office and the Police, despite the fact that they have exclusive functions and that the OAIB complemented the actions carried out by organs such as the general intervention, the Greuges Union, the Accounts Union and its island and municipal equivalents.
The person in charge of Public Administrations has insisted that she does not know the content of the files even when the deputy of the PP Cristina Gil has been interested in the existence of files related to high positions of the last Legal Legislature, such as the Ports or Varadero cases, the Sexual abuse of tuned minors, Armengol’s night departure despite the restrictions of the pandemic or the Koldo case. “He looked the other way in the cases that affected the previous Government,” said Gil. Being them, also, has pointed out that officials of the missing agency filed a complaint, as he said, since the director was who unilaterally decided what complaints they prospered and which were not.
The popular has reiterated her criticisms of the old entity and has justified her elimination by qualifying it as “useless organism in charge of hiding corruption.” For the deputy of the PP, the office was dedicated to the “dirty game” and has cited as an example the “persecution” against the president of the Consell de Ibiza, Vicent Marí, who was accused of “denigrating treatment” against a vice interventor of the agency and of “Press it” to “raise the repairs” to the granting of an emergency contract during the pandemic. The procedure against Marí was provisionally filed last December.
For her part, the deputy of the PSIB-PSOE, Pilar Costa, has lamented in her turn of intervention that with the liquidation of the anti-corrucion office “prevention has disappeared” and the complaint channel has been eliminated “by a political decision”. “The right to formulate complaints has been stolen from citizens,” he added. On this matter, the Minister has referred to the current situation of Impassewaiting for the State agency to be agreed with the State of complaints of possible crimes.
Costa, likewise, has asked them to be what the Government will do after the acquittal of the former PPCenseller of the PP Carlos Delgado, who last November sat on the bench accused of Amañar in 2013 the privatization contest of the sports port of Calanova (Mallorca) in favor of the company Port Olímpic Calanova, linked to Carlos Gelabert, partner and personal friend of the now exonerated. The socialist has also questioned the Minister about why she changed the lawyer of the legal services of the Government person in the case. In this regard, Estéllas has indicated that the Administration will always act in defense of the interests of the citizens of Balearicas, withdrawing importance to the change of lawyer. “The news would be that we would have retired or that we were not personally,” he had settled.
Both the socialist deputy and Maria Ramon, by Més Per Mallorca, have agreed to affirm that the appearance of the Minister has been late, nine months after having requested, according to Europa Press. The ecosoberanist has also been interested in the armored content of the files that now work in the parliament.
It should be remembered that the closure of the Anti -Corruption Office was one of the firm purposes that PP and Vox reached in the weeks prior to the agreement they signed at the beginning of the legislature so that the conservatives could govern the solo islands. The pact contemplated, in return, the participation of the extreme right in the Consells Insulars de Mallorca and Menorca, the fulfillment of 110 programmatic measures and the appointment of Ultra Gabriel senne as president of the Balearic Parliament.
The procedure to close the anti -corruption office accelerated after becoming public that the entity attributed possible crimes to a high position of the PP in the islands. Specifically, the public agency investigated an alleged plot of urban corruption that affected Sebastià Sureda, then General Director of Emergencies of Marga Prohens (PP). Just a few days after the investigations reveal, the conservatives announced that they wanted to expedite by law the elimination of the entity. Since the formation they said that the text was already written before the investigations around Sureda came to light.
In addition, while the law was processed to end the office, PP and Vox decided to suffocate it economically. The autonomous budgets for 2024 only contemplated 50,000 euros for the personnel expenses of this agency. Speaking to Eldiario.es, the director of the Anti -Corruption Office, Tòfol Milan, regretted that with the money they had given PP and Vox, “neither the rent, nor the safety, nor the cleaning, nor the electrical energy could be paid , nor telephone communications. ” The agency not only dealt with processing complaints and investigations of all kinds, but also of the prevention of corrupt practices, controlling and making citizens public the statements of goods of public office, of their training and Promote educational programs in schools.
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