The Community of Madrid has reiterated that “there is nothing illegal” in the acquisition of the penthouse located on General Martínez Campos Street, in the district of Chamberí, and has pointed out that the PSOE “is in an election campaign.”
Sources from the regional Executive have expressed themselves in these terms after the Court of Audit ordered an investigation into the purchase for 6.3 million euros of a penthouse by the public company Planifica Madrid, which depends on the Community of Madrid, upon detecting indications of a possible impairment of public funds.
In a resolution, the Councillor of Accounts decides to refer the proceedings to the Court of Auditors’ Prosecution Section so that it may propose the appointment of an instructing delegate tasked with analyzing the alleged irregularities reported and assessing whether they can give rise to accounting liability.
From the regional Government they have stated that it is “a mere headline,” recalling that Planifica Madrid is dedicated “to buying offices,” and they have directly linked this matter to the election campaign context. “The PSOE has ten days of election campaign left to investigate whatever they want: there is nothing illegal,” they have stressed.
Likewise, they have advanced that they will file an appeal against the decision to designate an instructing delegate and, in contrast with the central Executive, they have emphasized that they have not “bought anti-abuse bracelets under real suspicion of corruption.”