The Court agrees to appoint Lorenzo Lemaur a public defender after he failed to do so within the required period. As will be recalled, on January 12, his lawyer resigned from his defense due to "the existing differences with him in the legal direction of the matter".
On January 13, the Court required Lemaur to "designate a new attorney to represent him and a lawyer to defend him within two days, under warning that, if he fails to do so, an attorney and a lawyer from the duty roster will be appointed to him." After the time passed and he had not done so, his defense has been assigned to him.
Now it remains to be seen whether the new lawyer will request the suspension of the trial since he may not have enough time to prepare his client's defense, given the large volume of documentation in the case. However, for the moment, official sources have confirmed to La Voz that the dates for the trial, which will begin on January 30, remain in place.
As will be recalled, the Prosecutor's Office's accusation against Lemaur in this last piece of the Montecarlo case is due to the awarding to the company Tunera of a "project to support the development of actions and programs of the Arrecife City Council's Neighborhoods Department", managed at the time by Lorenzo Lemaur, which, according to the Prosecutor's Office, was never executed, and for which the company charged almost 100,000 euros.
This last piece of Montecarlo has many similarities with the Inelcon piece, in which the Court acquitted all the defendants except for the former auditor of the Arrecife City Council, Carlos Sáenz, and the former Finance Councilor, Isabel Martinón, who are also accused in this piece, along with the former mayor, José Montelongo, the former councilors Eduardo Lasso, Víctor Sanginés and the municipal workers José Nieves, Miguel Ángel Leal, Blas Antonio Cedrés and Francisco Hernández, as well as the businessman Eduardo Ferrer, owner of Tunera Producciones.