The mayor of Yaiza, Gladys Acuña, faces a request for 3 years and 10 months in prison within the Stratvs case, in which the Prosecutor's Office has just filed its indictment. In that writing, signed by prosecutor Ignacio Stampa, 10 years of disqualification are also requested for Acuña, who is accused of a crime of urban planning prevarication and another of environmental prevarication.
The same crimes are imputed to the Urban Planning Councilor of Yaiza, José Antonio "Tato" Rodríguez, for whom the Prosecutor's Office requests 4 and a half years in prison and 21 years of disqualification. In his case, the first crime imputed to him dates back to his previous stage in the Consistory, under the Mayoralty of José Francisco Reyes, when he signed an extension of the Stratvs license.
Precisely Reyes is the politician for whom the greatest penalty is requested in this case. The Prosecutor's Office requests 7 years in prison and 44 years of disqualification for him. The former mayor granted the first construction license to Stratvs, despite negative reports from the City Council secretary himself. Seven years later, Reyes also granted an extension of that license, when the works had actually started two years earlier with a permit that had expired, and when it could already be verified that what was being executed was nothing like what had been authorized.
Afterwards, "Tato" Rodríguez, as acting mayor, modified that extension decree signed by Reyes and included the word "bodega" (winery), which until that moment did not appear in the permit, since it spoke of "almacén" (warehouse). In addition, both the Urban Planning Councilor and Gladys Acuña, the prosecutor accuses them of not having acted afterwards, despite knowing the "serious" urban planning and environmental irregularities of Stratvs, including the existence of polluting discharges that had been warned by several technical reports.
Request for prison for three other councilors
In the case of the current mayor, (currently a party colleague of José Antonio Rodríguez, with whom she has just founded "Unidos por Yaiza"), the other crime of prevarication that is imputed to her is related to the granting of the classified activities license to Stratvs, which allowed its opening even though what was built did not even conform to what had been authorized.
For the other three politicians who participated in the Governing Board in which that classified activities license was granted to Stratvs, the prosecutor also requests prison sentences. In the case of the then deputy mayor and Urban Planning Councilor for CC, Leonardo Rodríguez, the Prosecutor's Office requests 1 year and 10 months in prison and 9 years of disqualification. For the councilors Evaristo García and Juan Lorenzo Tavío, both militants then of the PIL, the prosecutor requests 1 year and a half in prison and eight and a half years of disqualification.
Prison for three technicians from Yaiza
As for the technicians of the different administrations, the majority face fines and disqualification penalties, but not all. For the surveyor of the Technical Office of Yaiza, Pablo Carrasco, the prosecutor does request 5 years in prison and 24 years of disqualification, given that on two occasions he reported favorably to the granting of licenses to Stratvs.
The Prosecutor's Office also requests two years in prison for the person in charge of the Cadastre of Yaiza, Blas Noda, as well as a fine of 3,600 euros, in his case for an alleged crime of falsification of a public document.
As for the then secretary of Yaiza, Vicente Bartolomé Fuentes, the prosecutor requests one year and a half in prison and disqualification of 18 years. Although the secretary reported against the construction license of Stratvs, he later reported favorably to the granting of the classified activity license that allowed its opening.
Fine and disqualification for the rest
For the other five imputed technicians (two from the Government of the Canary Islands, two from the Cabildo and one more from the Yaiza City Council), the Prosecutor's Office demands fines and disqualification. In the case of Faustino García Márquez, who was the head of Services of the General Directorate of Urban Planning of the Government of the Canary Islands and issued a favorable report to the construction of the winery, despite the fact that he himself had reported against it a few months earlier, the prosecutor demands a fine of 27,000 euros and disqualification of 12 years.
The same penalty of fine and disqualification is requested for Armando Villavicencio Delgado, who was the secretary of the Commission of Territorial Planning and Environment of the Canary Islands (Cotmac) when he gave the green light to the construction of Stratvs, ignoring "the documentary omissions of the file" and without taking into account "manifest confrontation" with the legal precepts.
As for the workers of the Cabildo, the prosecutor requests a fine of 32,400 euros and 15 years of disqualification for the manager of the Insular Water Council, José Juan Hernández Duchemín, who authorized the Stratvs discharge system despite the fact that there were reports that warned that they were polluting.
Regarding Manuel Jesús Spínola Perdomo, who as the engineer responsible for Classified Activities of the Cabildo, reported favorably to granting the activity license to Stratvs, the prosecutor asks for a fine of 18,000 euros and 9 years of disqualification for a crime of urban planning prevarication.
Finally, he asks for a fine of 18,000 euros and 18 years of disqualification for the Yaiza technician Andrés Morales González, who reported on two occasions within the file to grant Stratvs the classified activities license. Morales must answer for an alleged crime of urban planning prevarication and another crime of prevarication.
Asks for the dismissal for one of the accused
Of the 17 physical persons indicated by Judge Silvia Muñoz in the order that terminated the instruction of the case, the Prosecutor's Office formulates an accusation against 16. On the other, Juan César Muñoz Sosa, who granted a permit to Stratvs as general director of Urban Planning of the Government of the Canary Islands, the Prosecutor's Office requests the "partial provisional dismissal" of the proceedings.
The prosecutor considers that there are no "sufficient elements to sustain the accusation against him", as there are "reasonable doubts" about whether or not he was aware of the illegality of the permit he granted. Although Muñoz Sosa ignored negative reports, the Prosecutor's Office considers that he also had positive opinions from the technicians of the Government of the Canary Islands against whom he does formulate an accusation.
Now, it will depend on the private accusations (represented by Urban Transparency and by the Negrín family) whether Juan Cesar Muñoz Sosa goes to trial or not, depending on whether they include him as an accused in their writings of qualification.
