The Court of Instruction number 4 of Santa Cruz de Tenerife will take this friday statement to more investigated and witnesses in the ‘Mediator case‘among others, the Madrid businessman Maximiliano Poveda, accused of a crime of bribery for, supposedly, having paid the ringleaders of the plot so that they could move their influence in favor of one of their businesses.
In the police reports of the summary, it is stated that Poveda spent up to 11,000 euros at a party with prostitutes and drugs organized in Madrid by the intermediary who gives name to the case, Marco Antonio Navarro Tacorontewhom he turned to for help with his plans to open a petroleum products storage facility on the islands.
It also appears that, finally, it ended feeling cheated by former national deputy Bernardo Fuentes Curbelo‘Tito Berni‘and their collaborators in this alleged corruption plot.
As a witness Carlos Ignacio Vera Barrios, president of the Tetir Sports Association, has been summonedclub of soccer fan who, according to investigations, was used by Fuentes Curbelo as a means to receive alleged bribes.
The former socialist deputy became president of that club Fuerteventuraa position from which he resigned when he was indicted and the first data of a summary that already has thousands of pages and around twenty people investigated began to be published.
Initially, it transpired that There were several payments to the football team’s account by businessmen who were seeking favorable treatment for their businesses. and, therefore, they reached an agreement with the politicians involved to channel the transfers through the sports association.
El Tetir defends his honesty
El Tetir, however, has always defended its honesty and the manager that took the reins of the entity after the resignation of Fuentes Curbelo has initiated an audit that covers from 2019 to 2022.
The Association assures that the income was reflected in a single current account in its name with the details of the payers, “perfectly identified” and that, furthermore, it was joint, so that movements had to be authorized by two people.
One of the parts of the summary that is turning out to be the most voluminous are the investigations into the plot’s relations with the Canary Islands Special Zone (ZEC), as it is suspected that Fuentes Curbelo offered from his advice the possibility of speeding up the procedures to take advantage of the advantages of this low tax instrument.
In this context it can be interpreted that he is also going to testify as a witness Jesús María Pérez Spínola, who was going to be the administrator of Raúl Gómez Rojoentrepreneur in the renewable energy sector whose intention was to create a subsidiary in the ZEC to install solar panels in Canary Islands.
Gómez Rojo could having transferred 22,000 euros to some of the bank accounts that have been investigated for suspicion of having been used to pay commissions and the summary shows numerous payments with his card in places frequented by the accused.
Ana María Hernández Martín has also been called to testify as being investigated, to whom it is attributed an alleged crime of money laundering, for the income in his account of money allegedly coming from the plot.
At twelve in the morning a member of the Technological Crimes Group of the Civil Guard to report the results of the investigations.
The judge has referred to the Technical Secretariat of the Ministry of Agriculture of the Canary Islands Government a writing through which he informs you that The extension of the instruction period expires on December 21so he asks you to send him the result of an audit that that department carried out.
