PIL sources confirmed the news this Tuesday and assured that the historical leader of the party is already in his house in Guatiza. It is the third time that Martín has been granted the third degree for this same sentence.
The founder of PIL is serving an eight-year prison sentence and fifteen years of disqualification from holding public office for three crimes: embezzlement of public funds, against the Public Treasury and against Social Security. The crimes correspond to the early nineties, for the management of the Agroindustrial Complex of Teguise.
It is Martín's fourth conviction, who was previously in provisional prison although he was not convicted of an alleged real estate scam for the case of Los Cocoteros in the late seventies. The convictions have occurred for the Roger Deign case in 1993 for bribery, for disobedience for the Guatiza bathing area and for bribery in the purchase of the vote of a PP councilor from Arrecife in 1995. The Complex's is the longest sentence he has had to face.
REDEMPTION
For this last sentence he entered prison on December 21, 2006. In October of the following year he was informed of the concession for a few hours, although it was later withdrawn. In December 2007 he was granted the third degree since he had been granted an extraordinary reduction of sentence of ten months and it was considered that he had served a quarter of the sentence.
The Prosecutor's Office appealed the decision of the Penitentiary Surveillance Court for the granting of the third degree and in May 2008 the Provincial Court of Las Palmas annulled the prison benefit, so he returned to Tahíche.
CHARGES
Martín does not hold any positions in the PIL, although no one doubts his absolute leadership at the head of this formation. He has been mayor of Teguise, councilor of Arrecife, regional parliamentarian, senator and president of the Cabildo of Lanzarote.
He still has a pending trial for the Los Dolores case, initiated by the PSOE (with whom his party governs in the Cabildo), for the construction of some bathrooms in Mancha Blanca in an area of volcanic lava considered an Asset of Cultural Interest. The Prosecutor asks for two years in prison for a crime of damage to historical heritage and another crime of prevarication.
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