The Arrecife City Council has already presented its indictment in the last closed piece of the Unión case, in which it is involved as a private prosecution and asks for 16 years in prison for the former mayor, María Isabel Déniz, only for the two plots linked to Urbaser. To this we would have to add what is requested for the third plot that is being investigated in this same piece, for the awarding of the Argana sports hall to FCC, since the City Council has presented two separate qualification documents within this same piece.
In the document that La Voz has had access to, which focuses on the alleged fraudulent awarding of the garbage collection contract, and the subsequent extension of another street cleaning and parks and gardens contract, the City Council demands that the 15 people against whom it formulates an accusation return almost 10 million euros to the City Council, which is the amount it estimates was allegedly embezzled. Of that amount, which amounts to exactly 9,789,461 euros, it asks that all the accused respond jointly and severally.
As for the penalties requested for each of them, the highest are for María Isabel Déniz, for the former secretary of the City Council, Felipe Fernández Camero, and for the former head of the Technical Office, Rafael Arrocha, for whom he asks for 16 years in prison and 20 of disqualification. The same prison sentence is demanded for the five Urbaser executives accused: Jacinto Álvarez, Santiago Alonso, Manuel Andrés Martínez, Francisco José Martínez Llerandi and Stephan Jean Balverde.
Eight years in prison for Dimas, Matías Curbelo and Miguel Ángel Leal
The next highest penalty is the one requested for the historical leader of the PIL, Dimas Martín, for his right-hand man, Matías Curbelo, and for the former local secretary of the PSOE in Arrecife, Miguel Ángel Leal. For all of them, he asks for 8 years in prison and 20 of disqualification, for their alleged participation in the "fixing" of the awarding of the contract to Tecmed (later absorbed by Urbaser) in 2002. Matías Curbelo himself confessed after his arrest in this case that the company had paid an illegal commission of "between 25 and 50 million pesetas" of the time for that award, and implicated both Dimas and Leal.
As for the Cabildo technician Manuel Jesús Isidro Spínola, the Arrecife City Council, as a private prosecution, asks for 3 years in prison and 10 disqualifications for him. His participation in the events is related to the private companies he managed while working in the Island Corporation. Through these companies, in which he was associated with Rafael Arrocha, he carried out projects that were later approved by himself or by Arrocha from their respective technical positions in the administration. In particular, from these companies they carried out projects for Urbaser, which were included in the contract with the Arrecife City Council and which, according to the prosecution, constituted an embezzlement of public funds.
Finally, the City Council also formulates an accusation against three other people who were linked to those companies of Spínola and Arrocha: Julio Romero, Daniel Hernández and Rafael Antonio Corujo. For them he asks for 12 months of fine and 3 years of disqualification for exercising public office.
Similar requests to those of Urban Transparency, with one exception
In most cases, the request for penalties coincides with that raised by the popular prosecution, represented in this case by Urban Transparency. The only significant difference occurs in the case of Manuel Jesús Isidro Spínola, for whom Urban Transparency asks for 10 years in prison and the City Council 3, for his involvement in one of the two Urbaser plots (it remains to be known the possible request of the City Council for the pavilion plot).
As for María Isabel Déniz, Felipe Fernández Camero and Rafael Arrocha, the Urban Transparency document raises the request for them to 22 years in prison, but the reason is that this document also includes the Argana and FCC pavilion plot. In the case of the City Council, although these alleged crimes are investigated in the same piece, it has addressed them in a separate document, which until now has not been revealed to the media. Thus, including what it claims for that other plot, the City Council's request could be equal to or even higher.
