OKDIARIO has accessed the ship of fraud where the former president of the Balearic Government and current president of Congress, Francina Armengol, stored a batch of 1.4 million masks fake for which he paid 3.7 million euros to the company Soluciones de Gestión, linked to Koldo Garciaright hand of the former socialist minister José Luis Ábalos.
The masks distributed in hundreds of boxes remain stacked in this industrial facility, property of IB-Salutsince its purchase in May 2020. Most of them are out of datealthough they were never distributed because instead of being the FFP2 offered by the company linked to the corruption plot of the Koldo caseturned out to be surgical, after the analyzes carried out by the Balearic Executive and the result of which was known a month after having been paid.
At first, they were stored in the premises of the old and closed Son Dureta hospital in Palmauntil in the middle of the last legislature they were moved to this supply warehouse of the Balearic Health Service, located in the industrial estate of the Majorcan town of Marratxí.
At the end of the video that accompanies this information you can see what the fake masks acquired by Francina Armengol looked like, which in principle were going to be intended for the civilian population and which were never used, allowing them to expire.
The head of Logistics who guarded these facilities alerted the socialist leadership of the IB-Salut, led by the councilor Patricia Gomezon at least two occasions that the batch of masks was about to expire and that It was necessary to dispose of them before they became totally useless..
Despite these warnings, the Health Policy directorate of the Armengol Government looked the other way and chose to abandon the lot to its fate, despite the millionaire payment made to the key company of the Koldo case. Now, once this scandal has been prosecuted, everything indicates that they will still be there stored until the judge determines when these fraudulent lots can be destroyed.
One of the unknowns that remain to be resolved in this alleged case of corruption is why the Armengol Government did not proceed to get rid of the masks, given that the previous socialist Executive He did not present the claim to the company Soluciones de Gestión until three years later of its acquisition.
Not content with this, in August 2020 the general director of the Ministry of Health, Juli Fusterpartner of Minister Patricia Gómez, signed the company for the plot of the Koldo case and certificate of compliance with the state of the masks. A document that helped the company sign new contracts with other regional administrations, such as the Canary Islands.
It must be remembered that Francina Armengol's Government admitted that it paid 3.7 million for the masks fake “regardless of the results of the analyses” on its quality, their status, or whether or not they complied with health regulations. This was an extreme that was proven not to exist once they were acquired from the Management Solutions company.
“We were asked to have a stock of masks for possible distribution to the civilian population and these masks could meet that objective regardless of the result of the analysis.” This is indicated in the report of the deputy director of the Central Purchasing and Logistics, Antonio Mascaro, dated July 6, 2023 (Francina Armengol's last day as head of the Balearic Executive), demanding compensation of 2.6 million from the company three years later, and not 3.7 million, which was what was paid. A total of 1.1 million less than what was paid and which was the difference in value between the FFP2 masks offered and the surgical ones sent.