The trial of the last piece of the Montecarlo case related to Tunera Producciones scheduled for January 30 may not be held. The lawyer who has been defending the former councilor of the Arrecife City Council, Lorenzo Lemaur, has communicated this week to the First Section of the Provincial Court his resignation to continue defending his client due to "the existing differences with him in the legal direction of the matter" and requests the Court to "suspend the proceedings and require Lemaur Santana to designate another private lawyer to assist him or, failing that, to assign him one ex officio." .
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 the 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.
The resignation of Lemaur's lawyer occurs two weeks before the start of the trial sessions, the beginning of which the Provincial Court set for January 30 at the judicial facilities of Arrecife, to which the magistrates who will try this case are scheduled to travel, in which a total of 11 people are accused and to which numerous witnesses and experts have also been summoned to testify.
Now it will be the Court that must decide whether to accept the request for "suspension of proceedings" that Lorenzo Lemaur's former lawyer has requested and require him to appoint a new lawyer of his choice or assign him one ex officio in case he does not do so within the period granted by the Chamber.
Legal sources have indicated to this editorial office that the resignation of Lorenzo Lemaur's lawyer so close to the start of the trial may cause its suspension because the new lawyer who assumes his defense may not have enough time to prepare his client's defense, given the large volume of documentation that the case has.
The same sources have also pointed out that this last piece of Montecarlo has many similarities with the Inelcon piece, in which the Chamber acquitted all the accused 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.
