The president of UD Las Palmas, Miguel Ángel Ramírez, had to come out this Tuesday in response to a statement from the Canary Islands Prosecutor's Office, headed by the Tenerife prosecutor María Farnés, where he has placed the yellow manager in the equation of the scandal of the Masks case in the Canary Islands . It so happens that the same Prosecutor's Office that in Tenerife has no conclusions about the 20 deaths in the Santa Rita asylum, in Puerto de La Cruz, Tenerife, during the pandemic (under Podemos control) and that was in 2021. The strange thing is that the European Prosecutor's Office decided not to investigate any fact sent from Las Palmas about the president of the Gran Canaria club as it did not see any evidence and, in the midst of the political storm in Spain due to the 'Ábalos case', it issued an accusatory statement. against Ramírez. In the Tenerife press, the deaths in Santa Rita have not aroused any interest for years, but since the president of UD Las Palmas was the one mentioned this Tuesday, they have come out to show off their objectivity.
The legal services of the president of UD Las Palmas have described them as "malicious leaks that have little to do with reality" because "I never sold or offered any health product to the Canarian Health Service, with which I never established a commercial relationship. My work consisted "only in intermediation, in a context of maximum difficulty and extreme urgency, to satisfy the needs of public health."
Under the assumption of supply of medical material, the "Las Palmas Provincial Prosecutor's Office has filed a complaint solely for two alleged crimes against the Public Treasury regarding personal income tax, in the years 2020 and 2021" against Ramírez. The president of the Gran Canaria team said that "it is clear from the proceedings that the European Prosecutor's Office itself, to which the facts that were the subject of the complaint were notified, decided not to investigate any other crime, as it did not see evidence of its commission." "I deeply regret that someone can claim that 10 million euros in contracted material was not delivered to any of the aforementioned companies. This statement is flatly false. All contracted material was delivered in perfect condition, an essential condition to satisfy payments," he said. Ramírez in a statement.
Since 2021, the Prosecutor's Office has been investigating senior Podemos officials for their management in the Government of the Canary Islands for the 17 deaths in the Santa Rita asylum, in Puerto de La Cruz, Tenerife. The counselor of the branch now has immunity because she is, like José Luis Ábalos, a member of the Mixed group in the Congress of Deputies. The Public Ministry of the western province has confirmed that it opened preliminary proceedings to clarify the possible commission of criminal offenses that led to the death of 17 elderly people due to coronavirus infections. The investigation could be expanded to other facilities, such as the Calateya or San Pancracio centers, also in Tenerife, where elderly deaths have also occurred.
