The ‘Mediator’ plot, which might be headed by the now former socialist deputy Juan Bernardo Fuentes, the General of the Civil Guard Francisco Espinosa Navas and the Canarian businessman Antonio Navarro Tacoronte, requested for an “financial toll” of 5,000 euros from the businessmen who that he captured below the promise of “acquiring privileges” when it comes to public contracting, met with them within the Congress of Deputies and on the headquarters of the Civil Guard in Madrid to seem “critical” and ended up in “massive events” in golf equipment and resorts with a median value of about 3,000 euros, based on the abstract of the case.
In a report, the Prosecutor’s Office speaks of “the existence of a plot made up of authorities, senior public officers and different middleman individuals of those that supplied totally different businessmen the opportunity of acquiring privileges within the subject of public procurement or different manifestations or derived advantages of the general public sector in change for the fee of items, gratuities, deliveries of cash or different items”.
The alleged community was “completely outlined and coordinated,” says the prosecutor, who locations Juan Bernardo Fuentes Curbelo, then socialist deputy, at its “higher vertex”; his nephew Taishet Fuentes, former director common of Livestock, and Francisco Espinosa Navas, division common of the Civil Guard.
Along with them, the National Police, in one other report, locations the Canarian businessman Marco Antonio Navarro Tacoronte, who would carry out capabilities of “mediator” between the alleged leaders and the captured businessmen.
The studies clarify that “step one” that the businessmen needed to take was to pay 5,000 euros, as an “financial toll”, to the Vega Tetir Sports Association, from Fuerteventura, which was chaired by the previous socialist deputy.
Navarro Tacoronte himself declared in courtroom on February 22, 2022 that they had been going to “go to” Congress, then to have lunch “and continued partying the remainder of the day, a median of between 3,000 and three,500 euros “per night time” that employers paid.
The Prosecutor’s Office particulars that Espinosa Navas was additionally in control of “receiving” the captured businessmen and, the place applicable, taking them to “items within the General Command of the Civil Guard primarily based on Calle Guzmán El Bueno, in Madrid, which It was important to have the ability to give an look of seriousness and energy to the felony plot and to generate belief”.
The plot centered on “entrepreneurs with enterprise expectations within the Special Zone of the Canary Islands –ZEC–, characterised by its particular tax advantages,” based on the Public Ministry.
“We should not committing any crime however we’re bribing,” Navarro Tacoronte even mentioned to one of many “peninsular businessmen” they might have captured, Antonio Bautista Prado, in a dialog held on November 12, 2022.
The complainant, one of many alleged ringleaders
The investigation started after the criticism filed, in December 2021, by the previous director of Sports of the Cabildo de Tenerife, Ángel Luis Pérez Peña, who warned of fraudulent costs on his financial institution card for an quantity of two,575 euros.
Pérez Peña, who resigned from his place on January 31 citing private causes, then reported these costs on his card. From there, the Police investigated them and decided that that they had been carried out by Navarro Tacoronte, who was the holder of the pay as you go playing cards, which led to his arrest in January 2022.
Navarro Tacoronte assured in courtroom that Pérez Peñas was conscious of the fees that he had denounced, since he had his “acquiescence, along with being the actual and remaining beneficiary of the denounced purchases.” And to show it, he mentioned he had WhatsApp conversations between the 2 and handed over two cellphones, that are the “origin of the plot,” says the police report.
Also in his assertion, the alleged supervisor said that he had robust proof relating to “quite a few crimes” associated to corruption that “totally different political officers within the Canary Islands” would have dedicated. “In brief, they might have organized themselves in a bunch reserved for illicitly enriching themselves,” says the Police.
With the overturning of those units, the Police compiled a collection of evidences concerning the existence of a felony group supposedly led by the deputy, who, “benefiting from the ancestry that his place gave him, would trigger the notion of items and perks of an financial signal by varied businessmen and ranchers”.
envelope supply
According to the ‘Corruption Report’ of the Provincial Police Station of Santa Cruz de Tenerife, the previous deputy, his nephew, the overall and Navarro Tacoronte, “would use entrance males and mules to obtain financial institution transfers of improper origin, in addition to forgery of invoices that justify these”.
The Police factors out that the investigation carried out proves “with none doubt” that the felony group, primarily based within the Canary Islands, could be devoted to the fee of crimes associated to corruption, extortion or documentary falsification.
And he emphasizes that the conferences of the deputy -whom he catalogs with the aliases ‘Tito’, ‘Tito Berni’ or ‘Juambe’– and the presumed mediator with the businessmen “culminated with giant events in golf equipment and on the Hotel Victoria”, the place they each stayed.
In addition, he realizes that there have been lunches and dinners with a few of the two personalities talked about, “based on availability” and “paid for by the businessmen.”
In these conferences, businessmen introduced their development plans and public figures mentioned what they may do for them. That was when “the supply of envelopes containing perks in money” was made, cash that was delivered “to the middleman and he to the character.”