The purpose of the action is to demand that the Wanda Vazquez Garced Government present documents related to the negotiations of contracts to acquire Covid-19 test kits and other medical supplies during the state of emergency.
The demand takes place after the irregular sale to the Ministry of Health by Apec General Contractors, a company with no experience in the field of medicine, of one million Covid-19 test kits for 38 million dollars, 19 million of which were paid in advance.
The deal, which was carried out by lawyer Juan Maldonado de Jesus, an ex-official in the administration of expelled Governor Ricardo Rossello Nevares, failed when the Oriental Bank warned federal authorities about an irregular movement of 19 million dollars by the Ministry of Finance.
The company tried to transfer part of the money to a bank in Colorado, in the United States, but the transaction was prevented by JSF.
The JSF had noted that it should be informed about millions-worth contracts like the one between Apex and the Ministry of Health, something that did not happen in an unprecedented procedure of transferring millions of dollars in 24 hours.
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