Agents of the Civil Guard arrested J.L.G.G., an official of the Provincial Traffic Headquarters of Las Palmas, and M.A.D.P., head of a Management office in Gran Canaria, in mid-November as alleged perpetrators of crimes related to procedures for requesting the transfer or deregistration of vehicles, such as fraud against the public administration, bribery, forgery of an official document, infidelity in the custody of documents and fraud.
According to the Civil Guard, "the Provincial Traffic Headquarters of Las Palmas detected, during a routine inspection, certain irregularities in the processing of vehicle files and the application of the corresponding administrative fees." For this reason, it requested the Information and Support Group of the Traffic Subsector of the Civil Guard of Las Palmas to open an investigation.
During the investigations, the Civil Guard was able to determine that "all the procedures detected had been entrusted to the same Administrative Agency and that the person in charge, either personally or through one of his employees, contacted an official of the Provincial Traffic Headquarters of Las Palmas, to whom they delivered the files to be processed and the amounts of the Traffic fees and the Tax on Patrimonial Transfers".
Allegedly, the official also received a certain amount of money for each file to be processed, not making the corresponding payments in the Cashiers of the Provincial Traffic Headquarters and the Canary Tax Administration, allegedly appropriating the aforementioned amounts.
The proceedings were made available to the Investigating Court of Gran Canaria and the detainees, after testifying, were released on charges.