Dimas Martín, Fernando Becerra, Luis Lleó, Gladys Acuña and Honorio García Bravo and his son, Honorio Nicolás, will have to go as witnesses to the Court of Instruction Number 2 of Arrecife, to testify in the framework of the case investigating the alleged plot for the massive granting of illegal licenses in Playa Blanca. At least, this is what the Prosecutor's Office has requested, which asked that several recordings of the telephone taps carried out in the "Unión" case also be incorporated into the "Reyes" case.
In those conversations intercepted by the UCO, not only were alleged crimes that are being investigated by Magistrate César Romero Pamparacuatro highlighted, but also other data that shed light or would help confirm the theses maintained by the Prosecutor's Office in the other major case against corruption opened on the island, which focuses on illegal licenses. Above all, according to the Prosecutor's Office, they would demonstrate the relationships between some of the main defendants.
And one of the main axes of this investigation focuses on demonstrating that the granting of illegal licenses was not something isolated or dependent only on the main defendant, the former mayor José Francisco Reyes, but that it responded to a network of which politicians, technicians, businessmen and lawyers were part. And within that alleged plot, the lawyer Felipe Fernández Camero would play a fundamental role, according to the Prosecutor's Office. On the one hand, as "inducer of the allegedly criminal conduct of the mayor of Yaiza". On the other, as a link between the majority of the defendants.
Waiting for the CD's
Numerous conversations in the summary of the "Unión" case highlight the relationships between all of them and, for that reason, the prosecutor asked at the end of 2010 that copies of these recordings also be incorporated into the case of Court Number 2, and that the protagonists of these dialogues be summoned as witnesses.
Now, the judge is waiting to receive the CD's and listen to these conversations, to decide whether to order the summoning of six new witnesses. Names of people charged in the "Reyes" case, such as Felipe Fernández Camero, Juan Francisco Rosa, Ignacio Díaz de Aguilar and the former mayor of Yaiza himself, appear in these conversations, confirming the relationships that existed between them. And that is a key piece for the prosecution, which is trying to demonstrate that for years they acted in an organized manner to violate the law, orchestrating the proliferation of illegal hotels and even partial plans in Playa Blanca in exchange for alleged bribes.
Several opinions from the prosecutor have so far highlighted this fact, with indications that would demonstrate that they acted and continue to act now in a coordinated manner, but the defenses of the defendants have presented different appeals alleging that everything responds to "a series of conjectures and assumptions" by the prosecutor.
In the case of the businessman Juan Francisco Rosa, when he testified as a defendant in the "Reyes" case, he explained that the lawyer Juana Fernández de las Heras was the one who represented him in the trials against the Son Bou hotel and the Princesa Yaiza, both declared illegal. However, he assured that he "did not know if Felipe Fernández Camero, father of the former, was at that time an advisor to the Yaiza City Council".
For these and many other denials of the main defendants, the recorded conversations between 2008 and early 2009 in Operation "Unión" become important. For example, in the first part of the summary of Operation "Unión", Rosa appears in several telephone conversations with Dimas Martín, which were being recorded by the UCO, talking about the situation of the illegal hotels owned by him in Playa Blanca.
In one of them, he tells the leader of the PIL that he has to "impose himself" with Fabián (in reference to his son Fabián Martín, who at that time was vice president of the Cabildo and governed together with the PSOE). "The madness is that I owe 60 million euros to the (unintelligible word) of Yaiza and the interests run every minute. And the Foundation, I already received yesterday from the Chamber saying that they give me eight days to appeal the issue (in reference to the request made by the César Manrique Foundation for some of the judgments affecting its hotel establishments to be executed). Again Felipe Fernández, invoices of eight thousand, invoices of ten thousand, invoices of twenty thousand euros every two by three", says Rosa.
The conversations also reflect links between Rosa and another of the main defendants, Ignacio Díaz de Aguilar. The time of the wiretaps coincided with the crusade of a group of businessmen against the Tourist Centers, even asking for their closure. Although the request was signed by other people, the conversations intercepted by the UCO reflect that those who were really behind it were other businessmen.
They even considered "boycotting" the presentation of Pedro Almodóvar's latest film in Los Jameos del Agua, alleging that this center did not have a license. In one of the conversations, the former mayor of Yaiza, Gladys Acuña, calls Dimas Martín to tell him that Juan Francisco Rosa has told him that they are going to use this "pressure measure". Then, Dimas talks to Rosa. He tells him that the "idea" was from "Ignacio", and the leader of the PIL asks him not to do it. "Now I have to call and convince Ignacio", Rosa ends up responding.
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