González insists that he was defrauded by the commission agents and that he did not deceive the SCS

González was the first of those investigated in this plot to appear before the prosecutors Gloria Yoshiko Kondo Pérez and Oihana Azcue Labayen after the case was brought by this body dedicated to prosecuting crimes committed with funds from the European Union.

At the hearing, González – who was accompanied by his lawyer Rachid Mohamed – limited himself to confirming what he had already stated before the Investigative Court number 7 of the Gran Canaria capital that was handling the case after the complaint filed by the Anti-Corruption prosecutor. , Javier Ródenas. The island businessman reaffirmed the thesis he posed when he handed over his mobile phone and He insisted that he never wanted to defraud the Canarian Health ServiceOn the contrary, he always wanted to fulfill the commitment to bring the committed medical supplies to the islands and that if the agreement was not executed it was because fu fooled by some of the middlemen who participated in this operation and who appear in the procedure as investigated.

Lawyer Rachid Mohamed He explained to this newspaper when leaving the statement that “not only do we maintain our line of defense, but the result of the procedures that have already been carried out” while the case was secret, “corroborate our version that there was never a crime of fraud.” “, said. «We are going to follow our line and demonstrate that RR7 never had the intention of scamming nor did he keep money from the Government of the Canary Islands.

The explanation that González gave, according to his lawyer Rachid Mohamed, about the destination of the four million that he claims in the Canary Islands Executive, was clear: “We already alleged at the time and it has been corroborated in the rogatory commissions that reached the European Prosecutor’s Office, that RR7 was the victim of a scam. In fact, this Prosecutor’s Office called these people who participated in that alleged scam to testify in the coming weeks,” he said, referring to Oswaldo Lastras, Samuel Machín, Lucas Cruz and Ishan Mahmoud Mohammed Al Sabbagh, “for example,” he noted.

«In the court of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, hardly any importance was given to these people and we point out the importance they had in this procedure. In fact we request the declaration of Samuel Machin», he noted. “Now here in the European Union they have been summoned and they will have to explain everything that happened,” the lawyer insisted.

Rayco González, according to the prosecutors, appeared this Monday as an investigator for two crimes of embezzlement of public funds and prevarication, participating “as an extraneus” as RR7 successful bidder. All this due to facts that “They could also constitute a crime of money laundering” in relation to the activity allegedly carried out by González “to hide the profits derived from the awarded contract.” He is also charged with an alleged crime of fraud “linked to a contract subsidized with European funds,” the prosecutors detailed.

For the lawyer of the owner of RR7, the destination of the four million that the SCS paid after the order issued by its former director, Conrado Domínguez, “is perfectly defined, determined and accredited. Both the judge and the European Prosecutor’s Office and the Government of the Canary Islands who are in personOr do you know where the four million are?. RR7 bought and paid for some masks that did arrive in Gran Canaria and were subsequently destroyed after being paid for by my client,” Mohamed described.

For now, The defendant’s defense said that they were “happier now than when we testified in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria.” “This version of ours, which was considered incredible, has been corroborated by the reports recently incorporated into the case.”