They were carrying out an "annex construction to the previous house" with three new rooms, "a stone wall on the perimeter of the plot" and "a swimming pool of approximately 30 square meters", and all this, without having the Territorial Qualification and the Municipal Works License, according to the complaint filed last March by Seprona. The "alleged offender", as stated in that complaint, is Dimas Martín's wife, Elena Martín Cabrera. And the case is part of the investigation opened within the framework of Operation "Unión".
The existence of illegal works in a house owned by the family of the PIL leader, located in Yaiza, was brought to the table at the press conference in which Coalición Canaria announced this Tuesday the breaking of the pact in the southern City Council. The until now deputy mayor and councilor of Urbanism, Leonardo Rodríguez, confirmed that the Local Police had carried out an inspection, after receiving a complaint. "The Local Police acted as it acts in any other procedure. As soon as there is a complaint, inspections are carried out, and then, once there is a sanctioning or infraction file on an illegal work, it is followed up. It is the treatment given to every son of a neighbor and that, of course, the Council has carried out with rigorous compliance. Here we are all equal before the law," said Leonardo Rodríguez, who on several occasions recalled that they never had delegated signature of the areas in which CC governed.
He explained it to questions from the press, after having pointed out that the dismissal of the head of the Local Police of Yaiza, adopted "unilaterally" by the mayor, Gladys Acuña, was the straw that broke the camel's back to break a pact that had been agonizing for months.
Acuña's version
For her part, Acuña denied this Tuesday that both facts are linked. "The report is not even made by this head of the Local Police, it is made by another agent. And that happened in mid-March. If it were for that, would I have loaded it at that moment, right?" asked the mayor.
In any case, she did confirm the existence of those illegal works belonging to the family of the historical leader of her party. "That work was stopped immediately, it was sent to the Urban and Natural Environment Agency, it was acted with greater secrecy if possible because of who it was. And that is documented and on paper. And I am going to tell you one thing, I am not going to explain anything else with respect to that issue, but I insist, the lie has very short legs and later I will clarify more extremes that surround that file."
Although she did not specify it, Acuña's silence could be linked to the secrecy of the summary dictated within the framework of Operation "Unión". And it is that the possible passivity of the City Council before the construction of a work without a license, belonging to the family of Dimas, which had even been inspected on several occasions by the Police, could be one of the fronts open in this intervention, which has included telephone tapping, and in which Gladys Acuña had to declare as charged before the Civil Guard.
Transformation
The house that opens a new controversy is located on Los Rostros street, but to get to it you have to cross an unpaved road, in the middle of the countryside. In fact, from the road you can't even see the existence of this house. Even being next to it, the back does not reflect the true dimension of the work, since an elevation of the land hides this house, which has the windows almost flush with the ground. But that's from behind.
In the front, the appearance is that of a chalet with garden and swimming pool under construction. Even, with signs of being or having been inhabited, since in the absence of finishing the works of the pool, it already has an inflatable full of water at the doors of the house.
Now, according to the mayor, the works have been stopped. But when the Seprona agents of the Civil Guard went three months ago, they found an excavator, owned by the company that was carrying out the work, and several employees who were carrying out "acts of transformation of the soil".
Dimas Martín's wife was identified as the promoter of the works, whose official address is in Guatiza, and Seprona filed a complaint for "the realization of acts and activities of transformation of the soil through works, constructions, buildings or installations without the formal coverage of the approvals, territorial qualifications, authorizations, licenses or mandatory execution orders or contravening the conditions of those granted."
In addition, the complaint states that the sanction for this infraction could range "from 10,000 to 500,000 pesetas" (that is, from 60 to 3,000 euros), "without prejudice to the imposition of coercive fines that proceed to compel compliance with the duty of publicity established in said precept."
The complaint, dated March 20, 2009, was forwarded to the Agency for the Protection of the Urban and Natural Environment, dependent on the Government of the Canary Islands, to the Technical Office of the PIOT of the Cabildo and to the mayor of the City Council of Yaiza, Gladys Acuña.
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