SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE, Nov. 3 (EUROPE PRESS) –
The director of the Canary Islands Health Service (SCS), Conrado Domínguez, investigated for the alleged crimes of influence peddling and administrative prevarication for the ‘mask case’ that investigates a scam of four million euros, has presented his resignation this Thursday, which has been unanimously accepted by the Governing Council.
This has been confirmed by the spokesman for the Executive, Julio Pérez, at the press conference after the meeting, stressing that the Minister of Health, Blas Trujillo, has agreed to dismissal at the initiative of Domínguez himself after holding a long meeting with the president, Angel Victor Torres.
Pérez has acknowledged that in recent days “there have been events” published in different media outlets –mainly that Domínguez was in contact with the administrator of the company supplying the material– and has indicated that for now no appointment has been made. to relieve him.
The spokesman did not want to analyze the causes of the resignation because it is a “delicate” and personal matter and he also believes that it will be “time” that determines whether Domínguez’s departure occurs “soon or late” depending on how it develops the court case.
He has said, in any case, that the resignation letter is presented after the meeting with the president and in it he explains that he does not want to harm the work of the SCS due to the ongoing judicial process.
Pérez has also pointed out that the President of the Government has not testified in writing before the court and that the Executive, appearing in the case as affected, is making an effort to “cooperate” with the justice system and “recover the money.”
“Anyone who can be pursued will be pursued,” he indicated, while acknowledging that “it is impossible and imprudent to make predictions about what may happen,” given that the summary secret has also been decreed. “You have to trust in justice and collaborate,” she pointed out.
Likewise, he does not believe that the Government has to change its “political agenda” due to the departure of the director of the SCS since it is not a dismissal motivated by “wrong management”, on the contrary, he has defended that the health policy “has been good” facing the pandemic, rolling out the vaccine campaign or undertaking investments.
“There are difficulties but we are moving forward, there is no reason to change the line,” he said.
