The latest public spending control report of San Bartolomé de Tirajana from the 2020 Audience of Accounts and to which Maspalomas24H has had access warns of the lack of respect for Municipal Intervention officials and the interference of politicians in the control of the public spending abusing ochlocracy when managing taxpayers' money. The Covid19 pandemic was taken advantage of to circumvent controls and even pay some official aid that had been dragging on for being poorly processed with a petitioner with debts to the local corporation itself. The Department of Finance was in the hands of the PSOE.
The 128-page report exposes two things that draw attention: an aid of 18.000 euros in 2018 to the community of owners Edificio Tamarán II to fix a façade while in municipal default, which was paid recklessly taking advantage of the pandemic given that The amounts do not match. But where there was a certain lack of control, due to being soft, in the Covid19 emergency period was with the prepaid cards for emergency food, according to the report of the Canary Islands Audience of Accounts made public this 2024. The San Bartolomé City Council Tirajana (AV-PP and CC) has not presented allegations against it, that is, it would comply or the current government coalition did not want to complicate its life or with the change of local power it did not respond in time around September 2023.
There are two contracts bought by hand: one for 155.366 euros and 308.394 euros. The Audit of Accounts points out that the "exceptionality that is not justified" and "could be the subject of a declaration of nullity by operation of law" given that the "intervening function was mandatory and has been omitted due to the irregular processing through the emergency route, when "What would have happened was to put the contract out to public tender with full application of the principles and guarantees established by the contractual regulations."
This is contract 10/2020 called 'Supplies of basic foods and essential products for people and families in a situation of social emergency' processed as an emergency contract and awarded on April 27, 2020 for 155.366 euros and another in July 2020 for 308.394 euros for the purchase of 'Cards of variable economic value to exchange for essential products in food supermarkets and other products to satisfy basic needs' processed as an emergency contract and awarded on June 15, 2020.
With regard to nominative subsidies, the only one granted in the year has been analyzed, for an amount of 18.249 euros. It went to the Community of Owners of the Tamarán II Building, for an amount of 18.249 euros for the arrangement and adaptation of the façade. It was processed as an ex post subsidy, and therefore granted when the activity had already been carried out. In 2020, the nominative subsidy was included through a modification of extraordinary credit financed by derecognition of credits. The beneficiary is not determined and explicitly identified in the statement of expenses. Neither does the detailed description of the object of the subsidy, nor the specific purpose, activity or project to which its delivery is affected, as provided by the standard. "There has been no record of the decree initiating the file, nor of the prior inspection and authorization of the expenditure," states the report of the Canary Islands Audience of Accounts of January 2024.
Regarding the tax debt with the Municipal Treasury of the Tamarán II community of owners, the Audience of Accounts says that there is a certificate issued by the Municipal Treasury indicating that it appears as its debtor; However, the recognition of the obligation was prior to the payment of the tax debt that the beneficiary had. Furthermore, the amounts of income do not coincide with those shown in the Treasury certificate. "There is no report on the proposal for granting the subsidy and disposition of the expenditure" and "no record has been left of the resolution granting the subsidy." It is reported that "the file does not include the prior inspection of the expenditure commitment, the prior intervention of the recognition of the obligation, or the formal intervention of the payment order, which was noted by the municipal Intervention in a report of omission of inspection"
The Audit of Accounts admits that it is true that it was a period of emergencies but that the measures adopted have no place in that theory. "Without differentiating between the successive contracts, the cards were deposited in the department of social services, without any connection with each of the contracts awarded. Subsequently, and once the subsidy was granted, they were delivered to the beneficiaries," denounces the Official report.
