The Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office has archived the investigation proceedings opened by the Madrid PP’s complaint regarding a contract obtained by a company related to the husband of Nadia Calviño, First Vice President of the Government. It is one of the complaints announced by Isabel Díaz Ayuso in response to the opening of an investigation into the commissions that her brother charged from a public contract for the purchase of sanitary material, a cause that was also archived.
Anti-corruption accuses Ayuso of seeking an “inquisitive court investigation” against a company linked to Pedro Sánchez’s family
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The company in question is Yellow Pages Sigital Solutions, now Beedigital. According to the complaint, the firm was “related by the complainant to the head of the Ministry of Economy, Ms. Nadia Calviño, as her spouse held the position of marketing director of the company.” According to her, she stated in the decree opening proceedings, “the award of the contract was made when the successful bidder had debts with the State for an amount of 1.6 million euros. When the contract was extended in 2020, the debt with the state amounted to 884,000 euros.
The Madrid PP denounced 13 pandemic contracts that would be linked to members of the Government, through family members or close friends. The specialized Prosecutor’s Office first ruled out six of those 13 contracts and last July rejected any type of illegality in the granting of these aids to the Playbol company, linked to Sánchez’s parents. In his brief, the prosecutor and the PP of Madrid to seek a “prospective investigation of an inquisitorial court” with his requests.
In its file decree, the department headed by Alejandro Luzón denies the core of the Madrid PP’s complaint: the company had no debts with the Treasury or Social Security. Nor is there the slightest evidence of favorable treatment: “There were no indications from which the alleged favorable treatment of the company denounced could be deduced,” says the Prosecutor’s Office after highlighting that the entire process depended on another ministry. There were also no irregularities in the granting of guarantees by the Official Credit Institute (ICO) to this company.
On these credits, the Prosecutor’s Office says that the company for which Calviño’s husband worked “met all the required requirements.” Her activity had decreased, she was domiciled in Spain, she did not owe money and was not in bankruptcy proceedings. The complaint filed by the Madrid PP, based on journalistic information, denounced that the company had a debt of more than 420,000 euros with Social Security, which according to the Prosecutor’s Office is not true.
