The deputy mayor of Teguise, Lourdes Cabrera (PSOE), declared in the Arrecife Courts that someone put the email of the Councilor for Festivities, Daniel Morales (CC), printed on paper on the table in her office at the La Villa City Council. This is what the councilor assured in her statement as accused of an alleged crime of revealing secrets on September 5, within the case that investigates the filtering of emails from one of her government partners.
"Documents of other people often appear in my office. This is common in the City Council," Cabrera said, according to La Provincia. "The doors are open and there is free access," she added, according to the same sources.
During her statement, the deputy mayor of Teguise assured that she was the one who sent the email to a local police officer, but insisted that she had no intention of filtering it to the media. If she sent it to the agent it was because "he has experience in recognizing irregularities", according to this newspaper. The email finally reached the hands of the Anti-Corruption Alliance, which made it public.
After her statement, Cabrera formally asked the Court to dismiss the case against her. "The events that actually occurred do not constitute any infraction," she said in a brief note sent after going to testify.
The controversy dates back to September 2013, when some media outlets published emails sent by Councilor Daniel Morales to a private company. All of them had to do with his management in the Festivities area. The information was made public by the president of the Anti-Corruption Alliance, based on a complaint filed in the Courts by a local police officer from Teguise.
This police officer filed the complaint, but the Courts archived it, according to Morales himself to La Voz. It was then that the councilor decided to file a complaint, "in which the theft of internal documentation, both personal and emails and internal reports, was brought to the attention of the Courts."