The Prosecutor's writing on an alleged plot of urban corruption in the Arrecife City Council, revealed this Monday by ACN Press, goes so far as to point out that the municipal complaint "seems to be due more to criteria of political opportunity or other nature than to the interest in putting an end to it."
The Public Prosecutor's Office bases its claim on the little collaboration provided by the City Council for its investigation, despite being the promoter of the complaint and the municipal report itself concluding that the events are committed with the consent, advice and collaboration of its own public officials.
What is more, the City Council does not even indicate to the instructor the identity of the person who signed the licenses and the person in charge of the changes in the cadastre in 2002. "Despite repeated attempts by this instructor to get the City Council to tell him the identity of these people, they have refused to answer, knowing their identity," it states.
The City Council, through its accidental secretary, replied in 2007 regarding the identity of the officials who had access to the cadastre database that "it cannot be informed since the person in charge of the cadastre, Martín Robayna Rodríguez (?) has been on voluntary leave of absence since September 21, 2006."
ON LEAVE OF ABSENCE
Regarding this, the prosecutor says that if the official is on leave of absence "there are still officials who should know them, without going any further, in the revenue department or the mayor herself [referring to María Isabel Déniz]." The leave of absence, on the other hand, coincides with the date of the City Council's complaint.
In the City Council there was an "especially rapid administrative processing in the Technical Office and in the cadastre through the help of officials in charge of the management of said matter," according to the prosecutor. Sometimes the processing is so diligent that "they forget to collect the fees."
The Prosecutor's Office investigations speak of a plot with the cooperation of municipal officials dedicated to registering farms (that already have an owner) in their name and modifying the boundaries to trade with them. There is talk of up to 53 movements of farms and the possible involvement of municipal officials, a notary, some public office and other people.
ACN Press
