The Investigating Court Number 4 of Arona, in the south of Tenerife, has already concluded the investigation phase of what is known as the Arona 2 case, in which the alleged irregular concession, by the City Council, of more than one hundred of urban planning licenses between December 2006 and May 2011, when the Mayor’s Office was held by José Alberto González Reverón, historical leader of the Canarian Coalition in the municipality and who, despite having three firm convictions for corruption and having been disqualified from holding any position public, continues to participate and occupies a front line in the party’s acts in this electoral campaign.
CC places the former mayor of Arona González Reverón, convicted of corruption, in the front line of an electoral act
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In fact, last weekend he could be seen supporting his party’s candidate in an act held on Saturday together with Rosa Dávila, who aspires to preside over the Cabildo de Tenerife. In a photo released by the formation itself, González Reverón appears in the center of the image with the candidate Clari Pérez, to his right, and Rosa Dávila to his left. “We are proud of Berto Reverón, of the great legacy he left in Arona, a reference for CC,” Dávila said a few months ago in an interview on Onda Guanche reported by Diario de Avisos. And he added: “He will not be on the front line, but he will pitch in from the outside and help us in the elections, they cannot disqualify him from that.”
Now that the investigation of the Arona 2 case has concluded, Reverón once again faces justice. The next step in the process is for the private prosecutions and the Public Prosecutor to formulate their indictments and, later, a trial date is set.
As reported Notice Journal, the judicial order, which is already final, describes up to 95 administrative resolutions adopted, supposedly, in an “arbitrary and prevaricating” manner, after another 17 were dismissed. The order was initially appealed before the judge and later before the Provincial Court, a body that has dismissed the appeal made by the defenses of the 14 investigated, based on an alleged violation of the guarantees of the rights of their clients, considering, therefore, that the process must go ahead, adds the newspaper.
The court brief specifies that the Governing Board of the Arona City Council granted “multiple planning licenses without respecting the established procedures, legally or by regulation, adopting decisions contrary to those that would proceed by law.”
Diario de Avisos explains that the order details in 84 pages the 95 licenses granted by the City Council that are under suspicion. The majority correspond to major works to construct buildings in different areas of the municipality with unfavorable reports from the Urban Planning Service or without the pronouncement of this body. In other cases, the order adds, these concessions were made without complying with the requirements on territorial and urban planning or without completing the reports of the technicians, or with the warning of the Urbanism Service to condition the granting of the license to the realization simultaneous development and construction.
Permits were also granted without the mandatory proposal of the head of service, without the prior authorization of the Cabildo or without the management unit being managed or the urbanization works received. In the case of minor works, the majority that appear in the car received municipal authorization without the existence of the mandatory proposal for an agreement from the legal area of the Urban Planning Service.
The judge concludes that “we are not facing a specific divergence in a license, but rather a significant number of licences, in an action that has lasted for years.”
