The General Council of the Judiciary has proposed imposing a new sanction on Judge Rafael Lis, who is currently retired but until a few months ago was the head of the Court of Instruction Number 3 of Arrecife. Lis already had to serve a six-month suspension sanction for a very serious offense and now has this second file open, which already has a sanction proposal from the CGPJ, for delaying proceedings in the case of the Tourist Centers.
The complaint was filed by two of the investigated parties in the case, who denounced that the magistrate had been without resolving their appeals for three years against the decision to allow the controversial Association of Jurists Jiménez de Asúa to appear as an accusation, which has been removed from other cases due to doubts about their true interests. In fact, in recent years he has ended up defending the same theses as defendants such as Luis Lleó and Juan Francisco Rosa, despite supposedly intending to bring charges against them.
After receiving these complaints, the General Council of the Judiciary forwarded it to the promoter of the disciplinary action, who concluded that the magistrate had incurred in a new fault. However, sources from this body have confirmed to La Voz that in this case they classified it as minor and what they did was forward it to the Superior Court of Justice of the Canary Islands, which is the one that must act in the face of this type of fault.
Awaiting the TSJC
Along with the file, the CGPJ also submitted a sanction proposal, which set a fine of 500 euros, although the final decision will depend on the Superior Court of Justice of the Canary Islands. In this regard, the TSJC points out that they have not yet adopted a resolution, although the Council's proposal is dated last May.
Regarding the other sanction that was already imposed on Rafael Lis, it implied a suspension of six months of employment and salary for a very serious offense, for having continued to intervene in a case in which he had been challenged. The challenge prospered as it was considered proven that Lis had an interest in that case due to his ties with Juan Francisco Rosa, who was using that procedure to try to attack the instruction of the Unión case. Specifically, on those dates Rosa had hired the judge's wife as a lawyer, who still continued to carry out proceedings even though she knew that she could not do so because a challenge had already been filed against him.
