The so-called 'Valka' operation, which has led to the search of premises of the Las Palmas de Gran Canaria City Council and private homes of a businessman in Arrieta and Gran Canaria, is a separate piece within the case that, since 2023, investigates some exchanges in the Tamaraceite Sur neighborhood in the capital of Gran Canaria.
This has been confirmed to EFE by sources from the Las Palmas Prosecutor's Office, who have explained that in the course of the investigation by the delegated Prosecutor's Office for the Environment and Urban Planning after a citizen complaint, "new facts" have emerged that have ended in the opening of a separate piece, 'Valka', which studies the possible commission of up to seven crimes in five people under investigation so far. Among them, a businessman who has properties in Lanzarote: Felipe Guerra.
Last Monday, agents of the Civil Guard, in a joint operation, carried out several entries and searches in the Urban Planning Management offices of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria (GEURSA), and in the Department of Parks and Gardens of the capital City Council. In addition to a private home in Arrieta.
They did so within the framework of an investigation coordinated by the Investigating Court number 2 of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria and the Prosecutor's Offices for the Environment and Urban Planning and Against Organized Crime, known as the Anti-Corruption Prosecutor's Office, in which it seeks to elucidate whether criminal acts related to public corruption and urban planning may have been committed.
Specifically, according to the Prosecutor's Office, five people are being investigated for the possible commission of crimes of administrative prevarication, urban planning prevarication, influence peddling, negotiations and activities prohibited to public officials, embezzlement of public funds, falsification of public documents and disclosure of privileged information.
According to sources from the Public Ministry consulted, this operation arises from investigation proceedings 100/2023, which ended in a complaint filed by the Prosecutor's Office for the Environment and Urban Planning, and in which new facts emerged that have motivated a separate piece.
The Tamaraceite Sur case
This complaint from the Public Prosecutor's Office arises from a complaint filed by the Rehoyas Avanza neighborhood group about possible crimes of urban planning prevarication and embezzlement of public funds in land exchanges in Tamaraceite Sur.
Within the framework of this investigation, agents of the Civil Guard have already carried out several searches in the Geursa offices where this Monday they returned to enter in search of documentation that could prove the facts denounced by the neighborhood association.
On that occasion, in June 2023, investigations were carried out into alleged urban planning actions that gave rise to a series of land exchanges on allegedly "non-existent" land in Tamaraceite Sur and that did not have, according to the complainants, a cadastral reference.
In this 'Valka' operation, the investigation focuses on the possible existence of an organized network dedicated to illicitly favoring, with urban planning and administrative decisions contrary to the general interest, certain businessmen whose economic interests depend, to a large extent, on administrative decisions that are in the hands or under the sphere of influence of the positions and former public positions belonging to Geursa.
