The indefinite strike maintained by the lawyers of the Administration of Justice has once again suspended the session scheduled for this Tuesday, February 7, of the last piece of the Montecarlo case. A session that was to be held in the courts of Arrecife.
The session scheduled for this Wednesday, February 8 in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, has also been suspended, so the trial will predictably have to be postponed until the end of the year.
As will be recalled, this trial was already delayed at the beginning since last week the first two sessions had to be suspended and other days were set in Arrecife and Las Palmas de Gran Canaria.
Allegedly illegal payments
This last piece of the Montecarlo case investigates allegedly illegal payments for services not provided to the company Tunera Producciones. Eleven people will be in the dock, for alleged crimes of embezzlement of public funds, fraud against the administration, administrative prevarication and document forgery.
For all of them, the Prosecutor's Office requests, according to the indictment to which this newspaper has had access, between three and six years in prison, the payment of fines and the possible return to the City Council of the money allegedly looted from the public coffers of the capital.
Among the accused is José Montelongo (PSOE), former mayor of Arrecife and Councilor for Finance at the time of the events. The former auditor of Arrecife, Carlos Sáenz, will sit next to him in the dock.
The rest of the accused are former councilors Eduardo Lasso (PIL), Isabel Martinón (PNL), Víctor Sanginés (PSOE) and former councilor Lorenzo Lemaur (PP), the businessman and owner of Tunera Producciones Eduardo Ferrer and several City Council workers: José Nieves Caraballo, Miguel Ángel Leal, Blas Antonio Cedrés and Francisco Hernández Betancort.