Interior dismisses the head of the Civil Guard in Tenerife due to the consequences of the Mediador Case

The Secretary of State for Security, Rafael Pérez, has agreed to the dismissal due to "loss of confidence" of the colonel chief of the Civil Guard Command of Santa Cruz de Tenerife, José María Tienda, whose name appears in the summary of the alleged corruption plot known as the Mediador case.

According to sources from the armed institute to EFE, the dismissal was at the request of the general chief of the Civil Guard in the Canary Islands and has been ratified by the general director of the Benemérita, María Gámez.

Civil Guard sources attribute the decision to the investigation carried out by Internal Affairs and which is directed by a court in Madrid to clarify alleged irregularities in the works of various facilities of the body carried out by the businessman from Lanzarote "Mon".

Among them is the Santa Cruz de Tenerife Command as one of the rooms that contracted the most suspicious works.

The decision of the number two of the Interior has also weighed on the information that has appeared about Tienda's relations with a builder investigated in the case, which may result in a "discredit" of the Civil Guard.

For the sources consulted by EFE, the appearance of the colonel's name in the information about the plot interferes with the operability of the Command and generates "distrust" towards his work, whatever the judicial drift of the investigated.

The sources add that at this time the colonel does not arouse the confidence and leadership that a senior commander of the Civil Guard should exercise.