The Provincial Court of Santa Cruz de Tenerife has definitively archived the legal case opened against the Institute of Social and Socio-Health Care (ASS) for the process initiated to transfer the patients from Febles Campos by rejecting the appeal filed by the Committee of the Single Company of the Institute and the union Assembly of Workers of the Canary Islands.
In the order, the Sixth Chamber of the Provincial Court considers “justified” the dismissal of the case agreed by the Investigating Court number 4 of Santa Cruz de Tenerife, since “There are no indications to consider the perpetration of a crime of prevarication, nor of embezzlement, influence peddling or prohibited negotiations.”
The insular councilor of Social Action and president of the IASS, Marian Franquethas highlighted that this new order “confirms that the criminal complaint filed was a fallacy whose main victims have been and are the people residing in Febles Campos, who are the ones who should already be able to be in a dignified place where they can be deal with the requirements they need”.
Marián Franquet lamented that the main objective of this lawsuit “was none other than to block what some could consider a political success by providing a solution to a problem that had been stuck for years.” He added that, despite this, they continue to work “to find a solution to respond to their situation and allow patients from the Febles Campos hospital to be transferred to new, more adequate and modern facilities.”
With this order, a process initiated in 2021 is closed and that the Investigating Court number 4 of Santa Cruz de Tenerife agreed to provisionally file in June of this year by proving that there was no criminal indication. A month later, in July, the Provincial Prosecutor’s Office of Santa Cruz de Tenerife again agreed with the Cabildo de Tenerife and issued a letter in which it requested the dismissal of the appeal presented by the company committee of the IASS and Assembly of Workers of Canarias (ATC) against the order of the Investigating Court number 4 of Santa Cruz de Tenerife.
