LA LAGUNA (TENERIFE), 11 Apr. (EUROPE PRESS) –
The non-attached councilor of the City Council of La Laguna and denouncer of the ‘Laycas case’, Alfredo Gómez -former of Ciudadanos-, is going to expand the complaint within a month by detecting new allegedly irregular contracts in the City Council and that already exceed the 200.
Speaking to journalists after the mayor’s statement, Luis Yeray Gutiérrez, before the Investigating Court Number 2, commented that the objective is to “identify” if there is an extra cost in the contracts and “verify” the real transactions with the companies.
Regarding Gutiérrez’s judicial statement, he has criticized the fact that he has not answered any of the questions from the popular accusation, “a silence” that is not typical of the position he holds and has revealed that Gutiérrez has said that “he has not had any intervention” in the contracts and that the proposals came “directly” from the officials of each of the areas of the City Council, which will force the officials to be summoned to court.
Gómez has pointed out that he detected the alleged irregularities when he was chairing the municipal transparency commission and possible crimes of prevarication, bribery, embezzlement of public funds, interested management and false documentation.
He pointed out that “many contracts” have been made to the same companies, created after the arrival of the PSOE to the local government, giving as an example that “one of them”, which has received almost 250,000 euros from the City Council “in minor contracts by hand” She was in charge of carrying out the “illegal works” in the mayor’s house.
Gómez has charged against the “palpable complicity” of the mayor of Urban Planning, Santiago Pérez, because “he has not carried out his functions” with due inspection — although the latest Management report acknowledges that he must remove a pergola and tear down the balcony enclosure –.
The councilor has also pointed out that the ‘Laycas case’ includes the mask contracts signed by the City Council during the pandemic, what happens is that the consistory has not provided the file and the court has requested it for the second time.
He has commented that the mayor’s attempts to link the complaint with the Canary Coalition (CC) try to “distort” his “fight against corruption” and has assured that it neither “affects” nor “influences” him given that his “obligation” as councilor and lawyer.
