Celso Betancort (Mauritania, 1955) has extensive political experience. He was first a member of the PSOE, deputy mayor and councilor for Festivities of the Arrecife City Council between 1983 and 1997 with José María Espino as mayor. He left the PSOE and joined the Party of Independents of Lanzarote (PIL), becoming president from 2002 to 2005.
With the PIL, he was a councilor of the Cabildo between 1997 and 2003, assuming the areas of sports and public works. He was also a councilor of Arrecife, for Public Works, Neighborhoods and Culture, with that party between 2003 and 2006, a position he combined with that of regional parliamentarian. In 2005 he left the PIL together with María Isabel Déniz and Inés Rojas, among others, and founded Asamblea por Lanzarote.
In 2007, he left politics and returned to his job at the Guacimeta airport, where he was an administrative technician for Iberia. He joined the company Clece, which had taken over the ground service of the airline. In Clece he does not have a defined position in the company's organizational chart and maintains a status of certain privilege, according to ACN Press.
Clece took over the ground service of Iberia and other companies at the airport a few years ago. The company belongs to the environment section of the ACS Group, the same section to which the company Urbaser belongs.
FCC
On the other hand, the arrest of Marco Aurelio Hernández would be related to the Fomento de Construcciones y Contratas (FCC) plot. This company allegedly paid for a trip to Morocco of 11,000 euros in November 2005 to former mayor María Isabel Déniz and eight other people, her husband, her siblings, partners and her children, including her sister Carolina Déniz, the current Deputy Minister of Justice of the Government of the Canary Islands and then Director General of Administration with Justice and later spokesperson for the Government of the Canary Islands.
After that trip, Déniz awarded the construction of a sports hall to FCC, whose attorney on the Island was Francisco Armas, also arrested last April and accused of bribery. Armas was president of the island's hotel association, is in charge of the construction company Horinsa and is a partner in the Marina Rubicón marina and owner of the Hotel Gran Meliá Volcán, which has its license revoked.
In the case of the hotels, which is being handled by Court number two of Arrecife, he is also charged with bribery.
ACN Press