"This devastating report only confirms the complaints that Citizens have been making since the end of 2015," says the mayor Antonio Meca
Citizens have requested the immediate rescue of the water supply service in Lorca after verifying the report and audit of the local legal services numerous irregularities and alleged crimes in their management. "The forcefulness and seriousness of the irregularities found and the economic impairment that would have supposed for 20 years they have obliged us to ask the Board of Spokesmen for the immediate rescue of the service, "said the mayor Antonio Meca, after analyzing the management audit of the mixed company Aguas de Lorca.
This report, requested unanimously in the plenary session of November 2016, is added to the one signed by the secretary and the director of the Legal Department of the City of Lorca on the financial control of the exercises between 2012 and 2016.
Mecca has described as "demolishing" the aforementioned report, which lists a wide list of possible irregularities and possible criminal offenses. "The report questions the million-dollar contracts that the private part of Aguas de Lorca would invoice the company for services that should not be billed, because they do not include any form of remuneration in their bylaws.The company has not respected the principles of efficiency, efficiency and economy in all contracts for works, services and supplies, with related companies, not having tendered such contracts " , the orange mayor has highlighted.
"To this we must add the fractionation in many contracts made with unrelated companies, or the deviations between the contracts with the suppliers and the corresponding invoices We have detected that there are many contracts made without an award procedure, nor with an approximate minimum price ", Mecca pointed out.
The report also points out that there are high numbers of workers coming from related companies without the mandatory selection processes being carried out.
"These irregularities and allegedly criminal acts confirm the accusations that Citizens has been making since the end of 2015," added Meca, who believes that the municipal legal advisory report "advises the processing of the appropriate contractual interpretation file and in its case the opinion of the Legal Council of the Region of Murcia ".
Source: Ciudadanos Lorca