Overview
- An order dated January 11 from Córdoba’s Court of Instruction No. 4 opens proceedings to examine alleged irregularities in 2020–2021 emergency and minor contracts managed during Valle García Sánchez’s leadership at the Reina Sofía hospital and the provincial logistics platform.
- The court sees sufficient indications to investigate possible administrative prevarication, procurement fraud, and document falsification, while for now discarding signs of embezzlement or criminal organization.
- No individual, including Valle García, has been formally named as a suspect, and any statements are deferred to a later phase.
- The judge requests the Provincial Intervention’s detailed audit reports on the 573 flagged files and an explanatory report from the SAS legal service, and rejects both a generalized police inquiry and the interventora’s testimony at this stage.
- This Córdoba case proceeds alongside broader probes in Seville (about €242 million) and Cádiz (about €235 million), as regional official Antonio Sanz dismisses the PSOE complaint and expresses confidence in García.