Agents of the National Police have arrested this Monday the previous deputy of the PSOE Juan Bernardo Fuentes for his alleged involvement within the so-called ‘Mediator case’, an anti-fraud operation that investigates the administration of assist for meals merchandise and for which he was underneath investigation, in line with sources near the investigation have indicated.
The arrest of the previous Socialist deputy within the Congress of Deputies till just a few days in the past has occurred within the context of the search of his dwelling, on the island of Fuerteventura. Fuentes was common director of Livestock firstly of the mandate of the present Canarian Government and he was changed in workplace by his nephew Taishet Fuentes, who can also be allegedly concerned on this case.
The investigation into the info for which he has been arrested is led by the Investigating Court Number 4 of Santa Cruz de Tenerife, which has already ordered the entry into provisional jail, communicated and unconditionally for the retired Civil Guard common who was accountable for the Las Palmas Command, Francisco Javier Espinosa Navas, for his alleged relationship in mentioned case.
Also among the many individuals whose statements have been taken is the nephew of Juan Bernardo Fuentes, the previous common director of Livestock of the Canary Islands and PSOE candidate for Mayor of Antigua (Fuerteventura), Taishet Fuentes, who was launched with the duty to inform change of residence.
In complete, the variety of detainees within the operation quantities to 12. All of them are being investigated for bribery, cash laundering, forgery, belonging to a prison group and affect peddling.
According to sources from the investigation, the alleged crimes charged in opposition to the detainees are restricted to the years 2020 and 2021, when the retired common was accountable for the GAR-SI Sahel venture, accountable for coaching gendarmes in nations of West Africa and, due to this fact, with out direct dependence on the organizational construction of the Civil Guard.