The Prosecutor's Office has asked the Criminal Chamber of the Supreme Court to call Fernando Clavijo, general secretary of the Canarian Coalition and autonomous senator, to testify as an accused in an alleged continued crime of administrative prevarication in the so-called "Reparos case."
The preliminary proceedings have been sent to the Supreme Court by the Investigating Court number 4 of La Laguna (Tenerife), after concluding that Clavijo, between 2011 and 2014, during his time as mayor of this city, issued more than a hundred decrees lifting the objections of the General Intervention contrary to the extensions and continuity of public service contracts.
In the writing of the Public Prosecutor's Office, which was advanced by the digital newspaper CanariasAhora, the prosecutor of the Supreme Court José Martínez Jiménez aligns himself with the instruction of the head of the court of La Laguna and with the prosecutor of the case and considers that the facts attributed to Clavijo, president of the autonomous government from 2015 to 2019, should be provisionally qualified "as constituting a continued crime of administrative prevarication."
"There were more than one hundred decrees issued to lift the objections formulated by the municipal intervention," indicates the Prosecutor's Office of the Supreme Court, so it can be interpreted that there was "a generalized use of this practice" and that it is not justified by reasons of urgency or emergency "as the senator tries to assert for his justification."
Between 2011 and 2014, contracts for extinguished public services were extended, some of them worth millions, "seriously contravening the Public Sector Contract Law and the bases and specifications of the respective tenders, despite the forceful objections formulated by the General Intervention," continues the writing of the public accusation.
For the prosecutor of the Supreme Court, there is "concurrence of the requirements of the criminal type of administrative prevarication," as can be deduced from the "accurate analysis" of the head of the court and the prosecutor who have carried out the case, "analyzing not only the incriminating elements, but also, and to refute them, the reasons invoked" by Clavijo to issue the decrees.
The judge of the case, after the proceedings carried out in La Laguna, considered that there was nothing more to investigate but to call Clavijo to testify and, being a person with special jurisdiction, sent the proceedings to the Supreme Court.
And the Prosecutor's Office of this court asks the Criminal Chamber "to initiate proceedings" to determine the responsibilities of Fernando Clavijo Batlle and "to agree to the diligence of declaration of the investigated."
