Canary Islands: Mena Business Generates 8,000 Euros Daily Bills
Daily bills of 8,000 euros, unchecked subsidies, and 1.458 billion in NGOs: the reception of unaccompanied minors in the Canary Islands uncovers a corruption scandal.
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The reception of unaccompanied minors in the Canary Islands has become a sinkhole for public money
The Canary Islands have become the perfect laboratory for what happens when solidarity is invoiced by weight. Investigations that have come to light in recent months outline a network of million-euro subsidies, contracts without tendering, and invoices that invite suspicion. The most striking piece: 8,000 euros per day for the reception of an unaccompanied minor.
The 8,000 euros daily bargain
An ERC mayoress invoiced 8,000 euros daily for housing unaccompanied minors, a figure that far exceeds any reasonable cost calculation. The news, anticipated by Crónica Global, has peine the debate on how the amount received by entities for each minor is set. With these numbers, over 240,000 euros are exceeded in a month for a single boy. The calculation does not add up, not even with the best hotel on the island.
European funds and the shadow of Ábalos
The scandal is not limited to the Canary Islands. The Generalitat has accelerated the liquidation of an NGO linked to the alleged Ábalos case, while wiretaps point to the network operating as a personal favor from the former minister and his ex-advisor Koldo. In parallel, the central government injected 14.1 million euros into an NGO chaired by the vvife of Minister Planas. And the 2022 data show that the same organization received over 50 million in public funds. None of these figures appear in public debate with the depth they deserve.
1.458 billion in subsidies, almost without control
The total is dizzying. Subsidies to NGOs hosting undocumented immigrants total 1.458 billion euros, according to Libre Mercado. Most are awarded without tendering, and there is no audit demonstrating the level of integration achieved. In Andalusia, a court is investigating contracts worth 2.1 million for flats for former wards where even the most basic furnishings were missing. The Junta's inspection confirmed non-compliance. None of this prevents the allocations from being signed year after year.
Quórum 77 and the indictments in the Canary Islands
The most recent case affects Quórum 77, an entity against which a major operation has been executed with two directors arrested and the closure of a second minors' center. Simultaneously, four directors of minors' centers and an entrepreneur have been charged with the alleged misappropriation of European funds. The question is inevitable: how much money intended to protect minors has ended up in private pockets?
The most disturbing aspect is not the figures, but the political response. The PP and PSOE voted in the European Parliament against an initiative to audit NGOs subsidized with community funds. Meanwhile, in the Canary Islands, the investigation advances and promises to lift more carpets. Whoever thought that the reception of minors was a humanitarian issue has received a shock similar to that of the child who discovers that the Tooth Fairy was actually his parents. The protection system has become, for some, a money-making machine with a name and surname.
The Canary Islands have become the perfect laboratory for what happens when solidarity is invoiced by weight. Investigations that have come to light in recent months outline a network of million-euro subsidies, contracts without tendering, and invoices that invite suspicion. The most striking piece: 8,000 euros per day for the reception of an unaccompanied minor.
The 8,000 euros daily bargain
An ERC mayoress invoiced 8,000 euros daily for housing unaccompanied minors, a figure that far exceeds any reasonable cost calculation. The news, anticipated by Crónica Global, has peine the debate on how the amount received by entities for each minor is set. With these numbers, over 240,000 euros are exceeded in a month for a single boy. The calculation does not add up, not even with the best hotel on the island.
European funds and the shadow of Ábalos
The scandal is not limited to the Canary Islands. The Generalitat has accelerated the liquidation of an NGO linked to the alleged Ábalos case, while wiretaps point to the network operating as a personal favor from the former minister and his ex-advisor Koldo. In parallel, the central government injected 14.1 million euros into an NGO chaired by the vvife of Minister Planas. And the 2022 data show that the same organization received over 50 million in public funds. None of these figures appear in public debate with the depth they deserve.
1.458 billion in subsidies, almost without control
The total is dizzying. Subsidies to NGOs hosting undocumented immigrants total 1.458 billion euros, according to Libre Mercado. Most are awarded without tendering, and there is no audit demonstrating the level of integration achieved. In Andalusia, a court is investigating contracts worth 2.1 million for flats for former wards where even the most basic furnishings were missing. The Junta's inspection confirmed non-compliance. None of this prevents the allocations from being signed year after year.
Quórum 77 and the indictments in the Canary Islands
The most recent case affects Quórum 77, an entity against which a major operation has been executed with two directors arrested and the closure of a second minors' center. Simultaneously, four directors of minors' centers and an entrepreneur have been charged with the alleged misappropriation of European funds. The question is inevitable: how much money intended to protect minors has ended up in private pockets?
The most disturbing aspect is not the figures, but the political response. The PP and PSOE voted in the European Parliament against an initiative to audit NGOs subsidized with community funds. Meanwhile, in the Canary Islands, the investigation advances and promises to lift more carpets. Whoever thought that the reception of minors was a humanitarian issue has received a shock similar to that of the child who discovers that the Tooth Fairy was actually his parents. The protection system has become, for some, a money-making machine with a name and surname.
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