The mayor of Arrecife, Yonathan de León (PP), issued a decree at the end of 2025 to investigate "each and every one of the traffic fines" that had allegedly been removed from the municipal system with arguments such as "direct order from the mayor" or "allegations accepted." This is stated in a document released this Tuesday by the Arrecife City Council.
That investigation resolved that in total around 2,300 traffic fines would have been allegedly irregularly annulled, with a hole in the public coffers of 600,000 euros produced between 2016 and 2025. The content of this internal report was presented to the Arrecife Prosecutor's Office through the legal advice of the council, by order of the mayor's office.
The council has also reported that Yonathan de León will appear next June 9 before the Prosecutor's Office to ratify the complaint supported by an internal report in which the anomalies detected in the annulment of traffic fines since 2016 were recorded. The municipal official has been summoned as a witness by the Public Prosecutor's Office along with the magistrate who is investigating the procedure.
An investigation that started in October
De León ordered last October the opening of a reserved and internal investigation to clarify the circumstances under which municipal traffic fines were annulled by municipal employees.
In the investigation, the municipal leader ordered to investigate one by one the fines withdrawn or annulled in the CGI system by municipal officials, as well as a list of affected files and the user from whom they accessed to delete this sanction.
Just as La Voz had narrated, León also ordered to temporarily limit the capacity to annul traffic sanctions in the system, allowing only authorized persons to carry out this task.
The court of Plaza número 3 of the Court of First Instance (Investigating Section) is the body that is investigating procedure 0000711/2026, following the complaint filed by the Prosecutor's Office against seven municipal workers.