Overview
- A court order from Almería’s Investigative Court No. 1 details very clear and solid indicia that former provincial president Javier Aureliano García and ex–deputy president Fernando Giménez took or facilitated illicit commissions.
- Investigators highlight a WhatsApp group using dental-code language, including a tooth emoji sent at 20:53 on April 8, 2020, three minutes after García signed the Azor Corporate masks award.
- The April 2020 sanitary-material contract, valued at about €2 million, allegedly carried an overcost of €945,327.61 (42.27%) with funds routed via CORPFAM and cash deliveries to intermediaries.
- Five people were detained in the latest operation, including former senior Diputación officials, as the probe proceeds with financial blocks, bans on disposing of assets, device cloning and cryptocurrency tracing.
- The order cites cash-based laundering patterns such as €19,750 in deposits into a sister’s account for mortgage payments, €20,000 cash for a parcel in 2025 and a family property purchase without bank traces, plus alleged use of Pulconal and OYC to capture public contracts.