Rachid Mohamed, current lawyer for the intermediary that gives its name to the mediator caseAnthony Navarro Tacoronte, has requested that his client’s first counsel, Placido Alonso Pena Fumero, be called as a witness within your strategy to annul the root cause for the way in which the mobile phones containing compromised information were seized.
With the recordings, WhatsApp conversations and photographs contained in those phones, an alleged bribery collection plot was revealed in which several public officials and businessmen have been charged, including the former socialist deputy Juan Bernardo Fuentes Curbelothe former General Director of Livestock of the Canarian Government Taishet Sources and the retired general Francisco Espinosa.
In principle, the judge of Santa Cruz de Tenerife The person in charge of the investigation has rejected the annulment, so the appeal is now in the Provincial Court.
If this court were to accept Peña Fumero as a witness, it would be unusual that he would participate in the case with three conditions: investigated, lawyer for himself and witness of another defense regarding a series of events that occurred on January 28.
That day, Navarro Tacoronte appeared, assisted by Peña Fumero, before the judge to respond to charges from a nightclub that appeared on the card he shared with the then island director of sports of the Tenerife Council, Ángel Luis Pérez Peña.
Subsequently, the judge demanded the delivery of two mobile terminals, suspecting that they kept very sensitive information about the activities of certain businessmen and public officials, based on what Navarro Tacoronte himself had recounted.
Alonso Fumero appeared this Wednesday at the Court that He instructs this case so that he is given the recording of the 40 minutes in which the magistrate demands that he give her the two telephones, which were also in the possession of this lawyer.
From here a discussion began between the two that culminated when the ‘mediator’ himself agreed to hand them over to the judge, who immediately advised the defendant to find another lawyer, as he did.
Peña Fumero recalls that it is expressly prohibited for judges or prosecutors to make any recommendation on the defense of the accused, a reason on which the possible request for annulment of the case will also be based.
In principle, the judge has not provided today with the recording of what happened that day that marks the start of this case, but she has done so with the 18 volumes of the summary.
Tomorrow, Thursday, the round of declarations will begin with the former councilor of Canarian Coalition (CC) in Candelaria (Tenerife) Celedonio Castor, who is alleged to have used his job as a taxi driver to transport money obtained from the alleged payment of commissions.
Next will be the appearance of the still Deputy Minister of the Primary Sector, Álvaro de la Barcena Argany, and then the Head of Service, both cited in relation to the alleged prescription of a sanction against a cheese factory run by one of the businessmen accused of the case. .
They have also been called to testify Rubén Fuentes, who is being investigated for the income located in a bank account in his name and, finally, Peña Fumero will do so.
The lawyer participated at the time in the drafting of the allegations of the cheese factory but its content was in the sense of requesting the annulment, not the prescription.
