Former President of the Cabildo of Lanzarote and multi-convicted for corruption Dimas Martín packed the Teleclub of Los Valles on Friday night. The Neighborhood Association of Los Valles chose as town crier of the San Antonio Festivities the former mayor of Teguise and leader of the Party of Independents of Lanzarote.
Dimas Martín, who gave the proclamation while enjoying a prison permit, has been convicted nine times for corruption and crimes against the territory. Precisely at this moment he continues in the prison of Tahíche, serving for one of those crimes. On the occasion of the celebration of the festivities and within the program of festivities, Dimas Martín was in charge of reading the proclamation, at 8:30 p.m.
In the most recent judicial ruling, from last January, Dimas Martín was sentenced last January by the Provincial Court to two and a half years in prison, after admitting that he had charged 72,000 euros in exchange for facilitating Urbaser the award of the Arrecife garbage contract, while María Isabel Déniz was mayor.
In another of the judicial convictions, it was confirmed that Dimas Martín participated in the looting of the public coffers of the Arrecife City Council between 2007 and 2009 to profit the members of the PIL and to obtain an irregular source of income.
