The President of the Cabildo of Lanzarote, Oswaldo Betancort, appointed the former mayor of Yaiza Gladis Acuña as head of his presidential cabinet on July 3 in the category of temporary staff.
The new island government, led by Betancort (CC), will pay Gladis Acuña 4,071.43 gross euros per month in 14 payments, which will amount to a total of 57,000.02 euros per year.
Currently and until 2034, Acuña is serving a disqualification sentence for a crime against land management in its form of urban planning malfeasance and another of malfeasance by omission for her role in the authorization of the Stratvs winery in La Geria.
In a final judgment, the Supreme Court ratified that Gladis Acuña granted an activity license to Juan Francisco Rosa's winery knowing its illegality and that she did not later take any measures to close the facilities, which had nothing to do with what had been authorized.
Despite her 14-year disqualification sentence, Gladis Acuña has not left political life. The same year in which the High Court confirmed the sentence that should keep her away from the public spotlight, Acuña tried to run in the elections to the Cabildo with Lanzarote Avanza and to the Parliament of the Canary Islands with Coalición Canaria.
After the refusal of the Constitutional Court, she became part of the Teguise City Council "as temporary staff with exclusive dedication as technical coordinator of the mayor's office".
At that time, the Contigo Teguise + Unido party denounced that "Oswaldo Betancort paid 200,000 euros to Gladis Acuña" under this concept during his last legislature at the head of Teguise. At the same time, he stressed "that she is not known to have a schedule in the consistory and no resident of Teguise has seen Gladis Acuña pass through the City Council in these four years".
