The Las Palmas Provincial Prosecutor’s Office has filed a complaint against a group of four people, including the president of the Las Palmas Sports Union, Miguel Ángel Ramírez. These people are linked to two commercial companies, and are accused of the crimes of embezzlement and money laundering, derived from the “large and unjustified income” obtained from the sale of medical supplies to the Government of the Canary Islands during the period of health crisis. of Covid19 between the years 2020 and 2021, as reported by Cadena SER and confirmed by this newspaper. The complaint includes, in turn, the former mayor of the Gran Canaria municipality of Santa Brígida (Popular Party) and also former deputy in the Parliament of the Canary Islands (United for Gran Canaria), Lucas Bravo de Laguna.
The ministry maintains that Damco Trading Services, SA and Tanoja Services, SL, both with tax domicile in Madrid, were awarded by the Canary Islands Health Service (SCS) during the health emergency due to Covid-19, for the supply of medical supplies. Damco, in this way, invoiced the SCS in 2020 a total of 15.89 million euros, for others and 2.78 million in 2021. Tanoja Services invoiced the SCS in 2021 for the total amount of 4.23 million .
Part of these amounts received by the Government of the Canary Islands was transferred to two other commercial companies. One of them was directed by Miguel Ángel Ramírez as partner and sole administrator. In the second case, he was transferred to a company whose sole administrator is Lucas Bravo de Laguna and another of the accused.
The Prosecutor’s Office explains that none of the recipients of the transferred amounts justified any activity that would explain “the large income of which they were beneficiaries.” Ramírez was acquitted at the end of last year of the accusation of committing Social Security fraud through the company Seguridad Integral Canaria between 2014 and 2016. The Provincial Court concluded in November that there is no evidence to prove that during that stage he was the “ “de facto administrator” of the company and, therefore, responsible for the alleged fraudulent practices.
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