The Lanzarote native Domingo González Arroyo, known as the Marquis of La Oliva (Fuerteventura), entered the Ángel Guerra Social Insertion Center (CIS) at the beginning of the week, next to the Tahíche prison, to serve his sentence for two tax offenses. This was reported by Canarias Ahora.
According to the judicial ruling accessed by La Voz, Domingo González Arroyo has been sentenced to three years in prison for two offenses against the Public Treasury. In a resolution dated June 2025, the Court of First Instance number 2 of Puerto del Rosario denied suspending the prison sentence.
The former mayor of the Fuerteventura municipality for 26 years, also a senator for Fuerteventura (1996-2000) and a member of the Canary Islands parliament (1983-2000), was found guilty in November 2021 of tax offenses committed in 2009 and 2010.
In the same sentence, Domingo González Arroyo was then ordered, along with José Carlos González Arroyo, to pay two fines, one of more than 1.2 million euros and another amounting to 331,000 euros, with subsidiary personal liability in case of non-payment. Furthermore, the justice system deprived him of the right to obtain public subsidies or aid, incentives, or tax or social security benefits for six years.
Likewise, both Domingo and José Carlos González Arroyo and the company Conlaofu S.A. had to compensate the Treasury for the total amount of money defrauded from the tax authorities, to which interest and surcharges had to be added. Between the judicial ruling that convicted him in November 2021 and the resolution that rejected suspending his prison sentence, dated June 2025, the former politician had not paid the economic sanction to which he was sentenced nor returned the defrauded money to the Treasury.
Request for sentence suspension denied
Domingo González Arroyo requested the suspension of the one-year and six-month prison sentence associated with the payment of a 1.2 million euro fine. The Public Prosecutor's Office and the State Tax Administration Agency opposed this suspension, arguing that despite the high amount of civil liability, the convicted person had not yet provided any amount of money.
In a document filed with the Court of First Instance, Domingo González Arroyo requested to be declared "insolvent" and for the "impossibility" of paying the fine to be agreed upon. These reasons were rejected by the Court.