The Government of the Canary Islands has announced that it will resort to "exceptional rules in order to accelerate and resolve the request" of the Superior Court of Justice of the autonomous community (TSJC) to reinforce the Court of Instruction number 4 of Arrecife, within the framework of the investigation of the corruption plot of the San Ginés case, which affects the former president of the Cabildo of Lanzarote Pedro San Ginés (CC).
In the procedure of the so-called San Ginés case, the alleged crimes of embezzlement, prevarication, money laundering and bribery are being investigated, related to the millionaire payments received by the lawyer Ignacio Calatayud when the current spokesman for the Canarian Coalition in the Cabildo of Lanzarote, Pedro San Ginés, was president of this entity.
This announcement comes after the Deputy Minister of Justice of the Government of the Canary Islands, Carla Vallejo, announced this Monday at a press conference that the reinforcement request made by the investigating judge Ricardo Fiestras would not be attended to until the sectoral table to be held in June.
This request for reinforcements, which was made by the Governing Chamber of the TSJC on April 14, is of an exceptional and temporary nature and refers to officials, since the designation of reinforcement judges is the responsibility of the General Council of the Judiciary and the Ministry of Justice, details the Minister of Public Administrations, Julio Pérez, in a statement.
The TSJC justified the request for reinforcement due to the "complexity of the corruption case." As a general rule, this type of request is attended to within the scheduled meetings of the sectoral negotiation table for civil servants, in accordance with a regulation, as Carla Vallejo advanced.
However, the Minister of Public Administrations, Justice and Security, Julio Pérez, has considered that the necessary conditions exist to resort to the urgency procedure and thus respond without waiting for the next meeting of the aforementioned sectoral table.
