The Government attacks Armengol after the UCO report: "She opened the door of the Consulate to the corrupt"

Palma"Lying in parliamentary and judicial settings has consequences." The first vice-president and Minister of Economy and Finance, Antoni Costa, has lashed out at the leader of the PSIB and current president in Congress, Francina Armengol

"When all the citizens of these islands were confined to our homes, when the healthcare workers were at their limit, and people were dying in hospitals, a bunch of scoundrels from a presumed corrupt scheme took advantage of the situation to do business," Costa lamented in reference to the contract, signed in 2020. In the same vein, he accused the previous Government led by Armengol of "letting the presumed offenders right into the Government's kitchen." "The most outrageous thing is that they were practically handed over to them," he pointed out: "It was a relationship of absolute cordiality, in which the doors were opened to the corrupt scheme."

Costa recalled Armengol's statements in various appearances in Parliament and Congress and also in a document addressed to the court investigating the case. Just ten days ago, the socialist said in a written statement addressed to the Supreme Court (TS) that she never managed the contracts for sanitary material during the pandemic nor gave any instructions in this regard. Although the summary reproduces exchanges of WhatsApp messages between her and García, the president denied having any knowledge of them. "As a consequence of the publications of the summary in the media, I learned that she sent me some WhatsApp messages," she said: "What I can say is that in any case I would have immediately sent it to the contracting authority."

In the case of the contract signed in the Islands, it is a purchase of masks for 3.7 million euros. Despite the fact that two months earlier the Balearic Health Service (IB-Salut) had received an unfavorable internal analysis of the product, the body issued a certificate of conformity with the order of masks. Three years later, after the regional elections, the outgoing Government filed a claim against the awarded company.