The holding of the last trial in the Montecarlo case remains up in the air. This Thursday, January 19, Lorenzo Lemaur's new lawyer has requested the suspension of the hearing scheduled to begin on January 30. The lawyer was appointed ex officio and alleges in a letter addressed to the First Section of the Court that "a reasonable time be granted to him to be able to normally instruct the case before the new hearing."
As La Voz advanced, the Court agreed to appoint Lorenzo Lemaur a duty lawyer after he had not done so within the required period. As will be recalled, on January 12 his lawyer resigned to his defense due to “the existing differences with him in the legal direction of the matter.”
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 Tunera company of a “project to support the development of the actions and programs of the Arrecife City Council's District Council”, 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 Chamber acquitted all the accused with the exception of the former auditor of the Arrecife City Council, Carlos Sáenz, and the former Finance Councilor, Isabel Martinón, who are also accused in this piece, together 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.