SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE, 14 Apr. (EUROPE PRESS) –
The CC-PNC group of the Cabildo de Tenerife has celebrated that the Court of Accounts of Spain has archived the procedure on the purchase of the Geneto lands carried out by the Science and Technology Park of Tenerife (PCTT) after endorsing the Public Prosecutor’s Office that the same “is duly justified, both for the form and for the price paid”.
The nationalist spokesman, Carlos Alonso, has indicated that the file confirms what they have been saying “from the beginning, which is that Geneto’s land was well appraised, the market price was paid and there was no patrimonial damage to the Park Scientific and Technological of Tenerife”.
“The acquisition of the land had a clear purpose, which was linked to innovation, and it was that the University of La Laguna could boost its technology transfer capacity because the land is very close to the Anchieta campus,” said Carlos Alonso, who I hope that this decision of the Court of Accounts of Spain, which has a favorable report from the Prosecutor’s Office, will allow “accelerating the criminal procedure and concluding favorably, since the purchase of the land was done properly and in accordance with the law”.
Carlos Alonso has assured that throughout this mandate “there has been a persecution by the PSOE, which has wanted to stain and deteriorate the image of the political activity of the Canary Islands Coalition”. “Now it has been shown that everything was a persecution and that the courts use it to do politics,” he added.
The PSOE and Ciudadanos had denounced this operation in October 2020 for the possible commission of various crimes by the previous leaders based on the report made by the CEO of the Institute of Technology and Renewable Energies (ITER), Elena Rodríguez, and the Controller. However, both the Public Prosecutor’s Office and the Spanish Court of Accounts point out that the purchase was made legally, without detriment to public funds and without property damage to the Cabildo company, for which reason they have decided to file the procedure.
In this sense, the Public Prosecutor shares the conclusion of the investigating delegate of the procedure on “the absence of accounting responsibility for the absence of impairment of public funds.” And this, based on considering that “the acquisition of land is duly justified, both by the form and by the price paid.”
