He says that he is “nobody” to give political orders and that the former socialist deputy Juan Bernardo Fuentes was not a simple “low deputy”
SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE, 23 Feb. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The mediator Marco Antonio Navarro, investigated for the ‘Mediator case’ that has twelve people investigated and a former Civil Guard general in jail, stated this Thursday that unlike deputy Juan Bernardo Fuentes, he does not have a “clear conscience” .
“I am very sorry that all the farmers pay because of one”, he pointed out in an interview with ‘Onda Cero’ and collected by Europa Press in which he showed his conviction “as a citizen” that the Government of the Canary Islands was aware of the facts although he cannot “prove” it.
He has pointed out that he is not a public office or “nobody” to “say what must be done”, he can only “advise or mediate” but not “make political decisions”.
Navarro Tacoronte has given as an example of his work that he was called by Tayshet Fuentes, then general director of Livestock, and commented that there was “a file stuck from a certain cheese company” and if it could “intervene in Madrid” in his favor.
Later, he commented that they met in a hotel “and there begins” to articulate what he calls a “negotiation” in which “the contact” is the former deputy of the PSOE Juan Bernardo Fuentes, uncle of the general director, who in his opinion, does not he is a simple “low member” because he was present in several congressional commissions.
As a result of everything that has been included in the summary “that cannot be denied”, he now wonders if companies were “punished on purpose to try to resolve the matter later”. “It is the doubt that these events have generated in me,” she added.
He has also said that “no one is interested in this coming to light” -he has denied leaks on his part- but everything precipitated as a result of the complaint by the former director of Sports of the Cabildo de Tenerife, Ángel Pérez, who complaint with a “false complaint”.
At that time, and to prove his innocence, he has said that he had to present “evidence” and his lawyer did not want to hand over their mobile phones because he said there was “sensitive information” from the Government, which is why he spent three nights in jail.
“Nobody has told or handed over phones,” he commented, and does not understand “what the president of the Cabildo de Tenerife, Pedro Martín, waited for” to dismiss the director of Sports “knowing that he was informed.”
He has also indicated that he met former General Espinosa at a dinner in Valencia in the company of the owner of a drone company and they talked about “trips” and “conversations”, acknowledging that when he had a “stuck” situation he asked to do “certain steps”.
HE RECOGNIZES THAT HIS WORK “IS NOT TRANSPARENT”
Along these lines, he pointed out that the drone company had obtained “interesting contracts” in Africa through “dad” – the nickname by which the former general was known – but he has indicated that he did not mediate in these operations.
Navarro Tacoronte does not understand that businessmen “now feel cheated” and did not say so two years ago when they signed the contracts and he wonders if his intermediation action to award contracts and unlock files “is legal or not legal” although he is clear which is “not transparent”.
He has indicated that at the moments in which the alleged plot was developed –mainly in 2020 and 2021– “there was an overcoming of work” that prevented him from stopping to think if there were people who were being “harmed”. “Now you stop and there are people affected,” she pointed out.
