The Board of Trustees of the National Cancer Research Center (CNIO), the most important most cancers heart in Spain, has unanimously agreed to not contract once more with the corporate Gedosol SL, accused of being concerned within the alleged corrupt plot that operated within the heart for years, and which might have stolen as much as 30 million euros in public cash, in line with sources near the settlement.
The resolution was made this Monday with a sure from all of the trustees, amongst whom are represented the central Government, 4 autonomous communities on a rotating foundation, on this case all ruled by the PP, and several other personal foundations, reminiscent of Cris Contra el Cancer, the BBVA Foundation and the Spanish Association Against Cancer.
The physique additionally agreed that Fernando Peláez, present performing scientific director, has signing energy, which might unblock the paralysis of the middle, which had been with no supervisor because the resignation of José Manuel Bernabé. This permits the middle to proceed with “day-to-day” administrative points, reminiscent of approving orders or paying payroll, however “large hiring” is excluded, in line with sources accustomed to the settlement.
According to the unions, there are 9 administration workers subcontracted by Gedosol whose contracts expired this Monday, March 9, and about one other dozen beneath the cost of that very same firm and others associated to the alleged plot that expire within the coming weeks. Those contracts wouldn’t be renewed, say sources near the settlement.
These measures goal to alleviate the deep disaster that the middle goes via, with a finances of about 40 million euros and greater than 450 employees.
Bernabé, a senior state official, had submitted his resignation on February 2 after a former colleague accused him of harassment, though the investigation was inconclusive. Last week, the previous supervisor revealed solely to EL PAÍS new particulars concerning the alleged corrupt plot that operated within the heart for years and that, in line with his calculations, might have diverted as much as 30 million euros of public cash.
The board has additionally agreed to start the choice course of for a brand new managing director, with the thought of shortening the deadlines as a lot as doable and for him to start out working as quickly as doable. This settlement is because of the urgency of launching massive contracts with new firms that aren’t recognized by the alleged corrupt plot, which the Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office has been investigating since November.
The board has additionally agreed to launch an audit of the upkeep contracts, which the general public firm Tragsatec could be accountable for.
The resolution comes after the revelations that Bernabé made to this newspaper, and which level to doable fraudulent contracts of round a million euros per 12 months from which the alleged perpetrators of the plot, supposedly led by former supervisor Juan Arroyo, and different senior officers of the CNIO, would have fraudulently benefited. Bernabé denounced {that a} upkeep worker, nicknamed the “butler,” employed with cash from the CNIO, went to former supervisor Arroyo’s home each week, in an opulent improvement on the outskirts of Madrid, to carry out home work, reminiscent of small works or cleansing the backyard. In addition, this operator often introduced a can of diesel to Arroyo’s house, additionally paid for with public funds from the CNIO, in line with former supervisor Bernabé, who despatched as much as 5 studies to the Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office about this and different allegedly prison acts.
These alleged illegalities are added to these reported by a former senior official of the CNIO earlier than the Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office, and which motivated the start of the investigations by the general public ministry, on November 26, 2025.
That date is vital. A day earlier, after already having a transparent concept of the alleged illegalities dedicated on the CNIO by Arroyo and his collaborators, Bernabé requested the board to fireside Arroyo and two folks very near him: the deputy to administration José Ignacio Fernández Vera and the final secretary Laura Muñoz. The first was for years an in depth collaborator of Arroyo and managed, amongst different issues, the donations of residences and inheritances to the CNIO that residents made of their wills to help most cancers analysis. The second, Muñoz, had been employed in April by the CNIO, with a wage above the same old wage for her place, 80,000 euros per 12 months. Until that second, since 2013, she had been a secretary on the CNIO subcontracted via Gedosol. The Board of Trustees unanimously permitted the three dismissals.
A day later, Muñoz filed a harassment criticism towards José Manuel Bernabé with CNIO human assets. He claimed that Bernabé had despatched him private images and movies of him exercising, and feedback concerning the variety of relationships he had had within the final 12 months. An exterior committee analyzed the case, however was by no means in a position to show whether or not there was harassment or not, as a result of Muñoz by no means appeared. However, the publication of the criticism by Abc It led the Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities, led by Diana Morant, to take away confidence from Bernabé, since he acknowledged having despatched these messages.
The former supervisor denies that he harassed Muñoz, and believes that the criticism is a lure to make him fall. Last week, the CNIO senior workers supported Bernabé and denounced that there was a smear marketing campaign towards him.
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