Fourteen years after the events to be judged, the oral proceedings will be opened against the former mayor of Granadilla, Jaime González Cejas, and his Governing Board of 2006, among which is Nicolás Jorge, today an advisor to the Arona City Council, at least in two separate pieces of the five of a process where the private prosecution (Yes it can) asks for prison sentences, for embezzlement of funds and the Prosecutor’s Office only requests years of disqualification for continued prevarication.
González Cejas confirmed to this newspaper that “they have not officially communicated anything to me yet, but I have heard that in four or five days the oral trial could be opened, which does not mean that it is for now, because there are also several pieces in the procedure opened”.
The former mayor was confident, pointing out that “the pitch has dropped, because not all the accusations are upheld” and regretted that “no less than fifteen years have passed to judge a matter that always had favorable technical and legal reports”, in reference to the granting of licenses and changes in the name of the land classification in El Médano. In addition, the former mayor, now retired, understands that in the process there are not only “undue steps”, but “extremely undue.”
In the two cars of September 30, the judge of Court number 3 of Granadilla declared the opening of oral proceedings for separate piece number 3 to seat former mayor Jaime González Cejas, and six other former PSOE councilors in the City Council of Granadilla in that mandate. The lawyer Aldo Pérez Carrillo, from Sí se Podemos, as a private accusation, requests penalties that add up to 57 years in prison for all those accused of alleged embezzlement and influence peddling, while the prosecution’s accusation is limited to possible disqualification sentences for administrative prevarication.
