the magistrate of the Court of Instruction number 4 of Santa Cruz of Tenerife Ángeles Lorenzo-Cáceres has agreed send the proceedings carried out to date in the ‘Mediator case’ to the European Public Prosecutor’s Office so that you can verify if there are facts investigated that are within your competence.
This is stated in an order signed by the magistrate last Wednesday, to which she has had access Europe Pressin which he points out that “Having seen the status of these proceedings” It is appropriate to issue a letter to that prosecutor’s office to see if in this case there has been a diversion of European funds.
In this ‘mediator case‘ The alleged existence of a network headed by the retired general of the Civil Guard Francisco Espinosaby the former socialist deputy Juan Bernardo Fuentes Curbelo –alias ‘Tito Berni’–, by his nephew Taishet Fuentes Gutierrez and by the Canarian businessman Antonio Navarro Tacoronte –the mediator– who he would have dedicated himself to collecting bribes in exchange for political favors.
According to the summary, to which this agency had access, the plot would be integrated by a criminal organization “formed mainly by three pillars and a clear link between all those investigated”. It would have “a perfectly structured and defined hierarchy, with a clear division of functions and dedicated to the commission of crimes related to corruption such as bribery and influence peddling”. The investigators maintain that the group was persecuting “an obvious lucrative purpose by obtaining economic enrichment as well as different personal benefits as a result of illegal actions”.
