Tegucigalpa, Honduras.
The Public Ministry to evacuate this Tuesday the test proposal hearing in the lawsuit against Marc Antoni Bográn Corrals and Alex Alberto Moraes Girón for the megafraud in the purchase of seven mobile hospitals with which Strategic Investment of Honduras (Invest-H) planned to improve health care in the face of the pandemic.
For this hearing, the National Tax Support Unit, in team with the Special Prosecutor’s Office for Transparency and Combating Public Corruption and the Technical Agency for Criminal Investigation (Atic), reported that they have ready 71/2 of evidence with which he will seek to prove the commission of two offenses of fraud and two offenses of violation of the duties of officials.
Among its means of proof are: biomedical expertise, technical reports, international legal assistance, testimonial statements and extensive documentation.
The Public Ministry will certify that in March and April 2020, the State of Honduras through Invest-H bought seven mobile hospitals to counteract the effects of the pandemic.
Also, that Marco Antonio Bográn Corrales and Alex Alberto Moraes Girón, In violation of the fundamental principles of public procurement contained in the Honduran legal system, they made the purchase of these hospitals directly and fraudulently with the defendant Axel Gamaliel López Guzmán, Legal Representative of HospitalMoviles.com and Elmed Medical Systems INC.
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Donat The cost of the seven mobile units and their treatment plants was overestimated at $ 47,512,564.00, equivalent to 1,174,517,764.33 lempiras. |
The purchase was made in accordance with the provisions of the Law, according to the contrast of supply and suppliers, without guarantees of quality, without guarantee of compliance, without maintenance of supply, without a fixed term of installation, without observing the guarantee of advance payment and without prior authorization of the Board of Directors of Invest-H.
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Strangely it was paid 100% of what this purchase represented. Biomedical reports confirmed that the equipment is not only overrated, but does not fulfill the function of being able to be useful in caring for covid-19 patients, because it has design and equipment problems, because there is outdated equipment, used and some even in poor condition or dysfunctional.
The Public Ministry details that the provider did not have the technical capacity to build, manufacture and equip this type of hospital. Personnel from the Procurement Department of Invest.H, now witnesses of the MP, warned about the danger of making the purchase, as there was no further information about this supplier and that due to the sums was a large risk that would lead them to serious problems, which senior management ignored, moreover, they were strongly drawn to ask questions about warranties and technical specifications in a mobile messaging chat that had been created next to the supplier Axel Gamaliel López Guzmán.
With the expertise, it was possible to determine that Marc Antoni Bográn Corrals had already had previous communications with Axel Gamaliel López Guzmán before the Ministry of Health sent him an application to purchase isolation hospitals.
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Along with experts from Mario Catarino Rivas and Hospital Escola it was determined that these hospitals do not meet the minimum adequate conditions to care for patients with coronavirus, two of which already operate have been adequate, but for minor surgeries, not for covid-19 .
Mobile hospitals have not provided a genuine service to the population, on the contrary, their acquisition caused enormous damage to health and public property. For all this, the Public Ministry emphasized that the signals will continue to be sustained against Marc Antoni Bográn Corrales, in his capacity as executive director of Invest-H, and Alex Alberto Moraes Girón, administrative manager of this entity , as well as against Axel Gamaliel López Guzmán, accused of two crimes of fraud as a necessary cooperator and who months ago was assured more than 100 million lempiras in a bank account in the United States; he already has an arrest warrant with an international red alert.
The Honduran Public Prosecutor’s Office is keeping open other lines of investigation into these facts in order to establish the participation and responsibility of other people in the case of mobile hospitals, while Interpol is expected to comply with the execution of the order. capture against Axel Gamaliel López Guzmán in the United States.