The Catalan couple who own the company known as Leche Sandra, Fernando Banús and Inmaculada Roca, both detained in Gran Canaria this week for his alleged involvement in the mediator case and that they were released without precautionary measures, They have asked this Sunday that the right to the presumption of innocence be respected.
The married couple, arrested in the framework of the investigation carried out by the Investigating Court number 4 of Santa Cruz de Tenerifewas released the day after his arrest after giving a statement in the duty court of telde (Gran Canaria) of Instruction number 2, as reported to EFE by their lawyers, María Rosa Díaz-Bertrana and Pino López, who recall that the presumption of innocence is a fundamental right.
In a letter, they stress that “parallel trials that are detrimental to the reputation of the people affected whose effects are difficult to repair” should not take place and they express their “maximum respect” for the investigation carried out by the Court of Santa Cruz de Tenerife into the marriage and the other ten arrested for possible crimes of money laundering, bribery, belonging to a criminal organization, forgery and influence peddling.
The couple is being investigated for the alleged commission of the crimes of bribery, influence peddling and belonging to a criminal organization.
According to their lawyers, the couple after their arrest showed their “full” collaboration with the judicial and police authorities to clarify the facts of the alleged extortion network against livestock and food companies in exchange for avoiding health inspections or expediting or unlocking files. of European aid.
Record
On the occasion of his arrest, a search was carried out in the offices of the Gran Canaria municipality of Ingenuitywhere the company that owns Leche Sandra, Mec Suministra (also dedicated to advising and supplying feed, fodder and cereals) is located, in which both collaborated with the Justice, according to the note sent by the lawyers.
The retired general of the Civil Guard Francisco Espinosa Navas, the former General Director of Livestock of the canarian government Taishet Fuentes and her uncle, the deputy in Congress Juan Bernardo Fuentes -who has renounced his act-. Both have been suspended from militancy in the PSOE.
The only one of the twelve arrested in the case who has been ordered to enter prison has been General Francisco Javier Espinosa Navaswho has been imposed provisional prison communicated and unconditional.
Espinosa was head of the Command of the palms a decade ago and according to what the media have published Canary Islandsthe origin of a significant amount of cash found at his home in Madrid is also being investigated.
Years 2020 and 2021
The crimes that are imputed to him are limited to the years 2020 and 2021, years in which Espinosa was in the GAR SI Sahel project, training agents from the countries of that African area and coordinated by the European Union, for which reason it did not depend on the organic structure of the Civil Guard.
According to the newspaper published this Sunday The provincethe Investigating Court number 4 of Santa Cruz de Tenerife has requested that trace in Nigeria, Mauritania, Morocco, Senegal and Cape Verde the patrimony that the general could have in those countries.
