The Court of Instruction number four of Santa Cruz de Tenerife has admitted six parties that have requested to appear in the Mediator case as a popular accusation. But they must do so as one.
The alleged corruption plot in which senior officials of the Civil Guard, members of the Socialist Party and businessmen from the livestock sector are allegedly involved continues to be investigated in Tenerife. The judge investigating the case has accepted the request of the six parties, but with the requirement to do so in a "unified, joint and simultaneous" manner, adding the legal direction of a single lawyer and with a bond of 2,000 euros.
This condition is based on the writing presented by the former Director General of Livestock of the Government of the Canary Islands, Taishet Fuentes, one of the investigated in the case, who opposed the admission of the appearance of these entities and requested that they act under the same legal direction.
The Superior Court of Justice of the Canary Islands states that it will not yet make public who these parties are. Among the six groups that have announced their request to appear in the Mediator case, there are at least four political parties: the PSOE, the Partido Popular, Vox and Fuerza Canaria. All will have to agree to decide who will represent the popular accusation in the case.
In addition, the Unified Association of the Civil Guard (AUGC) also announced that it would request to join the prosecution. Of the 12 investigated throughout the country, only Francisco Espinosa Navas, former general of the Armed Institute, remains in pre-trial detention.
The sixth person is Aguairius - an organization of water users and consumers.
Regarding whether the investigating judge will review the request for provisional imprisonment that Vox has presented for the former socialist deputy Juan Bernardo Fuentes Curbelo, for his alleged involvement in the case while holding public office, judicial sources report that "once the appearance of this popular action is formalized, the judicial authority will provide its requests and resolve them."
Bernardo Fuentes, known as "Tito Berni" in the summary of the case, in addition to having been aforado in the Congress of Deputies until February of this year, was Director General of Livestock of the Government of the Canary Islands in this legislature, like his nephew Taishet Fuentes, who succeeded him in office. Taishet was later dismissed by the regional Executive for "loss of confidence."
