SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE, 20 Apr. (EUROPE PRESS) –
The Investigating Court Number 3 of Santa Cruz de Tenerife has agreed to file the complaint for prevarication, bribery, interested management and embezzlement of public funds filed by the non-attached councilor of the City Council of La Laguna, Alfredo Gómez, against the President of Parliament of the Canary Islands, Gustavo Matos, not appreciating criminal evidence.
The investigating magistrate has upheld the appeal for reform filed by the representation of the president of the Chamber against the order that agreed to open preliminary proceedings and, after taking into consideration the report of the prosecutor favorable to the file, has left without effect the initiation of the proceedings. proceedings and has declared the provisional dismissal and the filing of the case, reports the Superior Court of Justice of the Canary Islands (TSJC).
The complainant accused Matos of carrying out a work without authorization in an attic in La Laguna in January 2021, contracting it with the company Devicserver SL, which, he asserted, had been awarded the catering contracts of the Parliament of the Canary Islands “since the second half of 2019 to the present”.
The order, made public this Wednesday, states that after examining the documentation and coinciding with the arguments presented by the Public Prosecutor’s Office in its report, “the complaint points to the link between the services provided by the entity the company Devicserver SL (… .) with the award to companies related to the administrator of all the catering service contracts formalized by the Parliament of the Canary Islands during the X legislature, in which the defendant is president of the Chamber (since 6/25/2019)” .
Thus, adds the judicial authority: “As results from the transparency website of the Parliament of the Canary Islands, as well as the certification on the catering contracts entered into by the Parliament of the Canary Islands from 2019 to March 2022 -provided by the defendant- -, neither the company Devicserver SL has been awarded any catering contract (…) nor is there evidence that the work on the defendant’s home was carried out by the company Devicserver (…), so it is appropriate to partially estimate the appeal in the absence of sufficient evidence and agree on the provisional dismissal of the proceedings, as provided for in article 641.2 of the Law of Criminal Procedure, on the understanding that there are not sufficient evidence of the crime under investigation”.
The resolution, they point out from the TSJC, is subject to appeal.
