Jacinto Álvarez, who was the delegate of Tecmed/Urbaser in Lanzarote at the time of the Operación Jable plot, noted in his diary that the former mayor of Arrecife, María Isabel Déniz, at some point wanted 40,000 euros "for her shady dealings".
Jacinto Álvarez's daughter testified this Thursday as a witness in the trial against her father and ten other people at the request of the Prosecutor's Office to clarify what annotations her father had made in his diaries and notebooks and which other people, including herself, had made.
In the notebooks, Álvarez used to write down issues of his daily life and they have become the main evidence in the present trial, which resolves the responsibility of several political leaders of Lanzarote, businessmen and municipal officials in the alleged rigging of contracts in the Arrecife City Council, and which is the last piece to be judged in the Unión case.
In November 2003, he noted in the diaries that María Isabel Déniz asked him for a trip to Tanzania and that, for this, she paid him 14,000 euros: "The Kilimanjaro trip is already done," he noted.
In those same days, he also wrote that he had given "an envelope" with 30,000 euros to the former leader of the Independent Party of Lanzarote (PIL), Dimas Martín, also accused in this plot, who acknowledged at the beginning of the trial that he had received about 70,000 euros from Tecmed (later Urbaser) and FCC, as well as another 31,000 euros "to cover holes".
In September 2004, new annotations record that the former mayor of Arrecife asked for a steel and gold Rolex Cadet watch with Roman numerals for her birthday, a jewel that was worth 4,500 euros, as well as a one-week trip to Granada for a third person.
Days later, he noted: "(María Isabel Déniz) Wants a list of jobs to tell Manuel Andrés, and wants 40,000 euros for her shady dealings".
"See the documents delivered"
Regarding the days when the contract for the collection of urban solid waste in Arrecife was allegedly rigged in favor of the company Tecmed, the Anti-Corruption Prosecutor, Javier Ródenas, has also asked who had written the message "See Felipe Fernández deliver the documents" on May 22, 2002.
The witness responded that she was sure "without any doubt" that it was her father's secretary who wrote it down, so the defense lawyer of the former general secretary of the City Council at that time, Felipe Fernández Camero himself, asked her if there were "dynamics" in the annotations, to which Álvarez's daughter could not answer.
In addition to the names of Fernández Camero, Martín and Déniz, the diaries of Jacinto Álvarez also included payments to another of the accused in the plot, the head of the Technical Office of the Consistory, Juan Rafael Arrocha.
"Meeting in Madrid, dinner, (Déniz) asked for an increase in staff and a truck, financing of four works, all this for approving something we had rights to. Afterwards she met with... I don't know what they talked about, from this meeting I rule out Arrocha because she doesn't trust him. Arrocha claims the 180,305 euros from me and Manuel (Andrés Martínez, who was number two of Urbaser until he was dismissed in April after confessing that he had paid bribes) doesn't say anything to him," he wrote.
The trial will continue next Monday, September 25, with the practice of expert evidence.