The lawyer of Marco Antonio Navarro Tacoronte, the intermediary who gives name to the Mediator case and who has provided the judge with the information with which the alleged plot began to be uncovered, has informed the court that he is resigning from his defense.
In a letter sent to the investigating court number 4 of Santa Cruz de Tenerife, the lawyer Antonio Brito communicates this "consensual" resignation and believes that his replacement should correct "the inconveniences of a high and continuous public overexposure over time" of his client until today.
In the Mediator case, the magistrate is trying to determine if the former PSOE deputy Juan Bernardo Fuentes Curbelo and his nephew Taishet Fuentes - former general director of Livestock of the Canary Islands - and a general of the Civil Guard (Francisco Espinosa) received bribes from businessmen to obtain public contracts and subsidies or to prevent inspections or sanctions.
The case was developed under secrecy of summary until February 14, the day on which eleven of the twelve investigated were arrested (at that time, Fuentes Curbelo was still a deputy in Congress and the judge refrained from taking any action against him, beyond recording in the proceedings the indications that pointed to him).
On February 13, Lorenzo-Cáceres issued an order by which he ordered that, once the arrests had been made, the secrecy of the summary be lifted and the proceedings be delivered to all parties, since until that moment only the Public Prosecutor's Office and the Police and Civil Guard teams in charge of the case knew about them.
In his letter to the court, the lawyer asks that Marco Antonio Navarro Tacoronte be assigned a duty lawyer "in order not to cause him defenselessness". After Easter, he says, "the presence of another more incisive and aggressive lawyer will be essential to satisfy the legitimate defense expectations" of his client.
