The Provincial Court of Las Palmas has dismissed the appeals filed by Juan Manuel Sosa Rodríguez, definitively archiving his complaint for coercion and threats against Pedro San Ginés, later extended for document forgery against all the councilors of the Canarian Coalition (CC) in the Cabildo of Lanzarote. The judicial resolution confirms the absence of criminal evidence and puts an end to this process initiated by Sosa in 2021.
After the order was known, the Canarian Coalition stated that “justice is slow, but it has finally been demonstrated that CC always acted correctly. It was the defector who, in addition to abandoning the discipline of his group, improperly collected almost 300,000 euros for three and a half years. And even so, he was allowed to denounce the political group he had betrayed.”
From the Canarian Coalition they explain that "during the last legislature, Juan Manuel Sosa was expelled from his political group after defecting from CC to the island government. He did so in a controversial context in which, in addition, he fraudulently collected his salary as a doctor of the Canarian Health Service whom he deceived, a fact that was facilitated by the former president of the Cabildo, Dolores Corujo, to shield herself in a minority in the Presidency."
Sosa's complaint included accusations of coercion and threats against Pedro San Ginés, head of the CC list, and against all the party's councilors for document forgery. However, both complaints were dismissed.
"Despite the repeated judicial decisions against him, Juan Manuel Sosa repeatedly appealed the dismissal of his complaint. Among his attempts, he requested that the dumping and analysis of the hard drives of the CC political group's computers be authorized in an attempt to find evidence to support his accusations," they add.
However, they state from the nationalist formation, "both this request and his appeal have been definitively rejected by the Provincial Court, reaffirming the non-existence of the reported criminal evidence, in two orders rejecting Sosa's claims dated this Wednesday, September 11."
In these latest orders, in addition to dismissing the appeal, the Provincial Court has imposed the procedural costs on Juan Manuel Sosa, if any. "This decision reinforces the forcefulness of the ruling and underlines the lack of foundation in his accusations," they point out.
With these latest resolutions, against which “no appeal is possible”, according to them, justice has definitively closed the case, ratifying the legality of the actions of the Canarian Coalition.
“This makes it clear that the will of the CC councilors was always transparent and in accordance with the law, now it only remains for Juan Manuel Sosa to return to the public coffers the approximately 300,000 euros that the Government should claim from him”, the nationalists conclude.
