The Prosecutor's Office has requested the opening of a new judicial procedure following a complaint filed by Vecinos Unidos Canarias and the Vecinal Coveinca Confederation, for the alleged "dereliction of duty" of the Arrecife City Council in the face of the alleged irregularities of the Iveco workshop in Argana Alta.
In his writing, the prosecutor asks that councilor José Montelongo and the technicians who participated in different files related to that workshop be summoned as defendants. In addition, he requests that the City Council be asked for a copy of the "incomplete" sanctioning files that were opened against the company for the works and activities carried out there, as well as a report to the Island Plan office of the Cabildo on the "alleged violated regulations".
The situation of that workshop has been denounced for years by the former president of the Argana neighborhood association, Andrés Medina, who had addressed the City Council on several occasions asking it to take action, understanding that the company had carried out works that did not conform to the law; that it had occupied part of a street and eliminated parking spaces that should exist in that area; and that it was operating for years without a license for the activity it carried out.
Finally, last January he decided to take his complaint to the Prosecutor's Office, through the Vecinos Unidos Canarias party and the Vecinal Coveinca Confederation, and reiterated it again at the beginning of this summer, providing new data. Shortly after, the Prosecutor's Office decided to transfer it to the Court to open investigation proceedings. In his writing, dated August 1, the prosecutor points out that alleged crimes of urban planning malfeasance could have been committed, for which he requests that the Councilor for Classified Activities and three technicians from the area be summoned as defendants.
License seven years later
In addition to denouncing the alleged irregularities in the construction of the workshop, the sanctioning files that were initiated and not concluded, and the fact that it has been operating allegedly "illegally" for seven years, Andrés Medina also denounced that last year, the City Council finally granted the activity opening license for exhibition and sale.
"The technicians validated it, with the same criteria with which they had previously denied it," stated the complaint from Vecinos Unidos, emphasizing that until that moment, negative reports had been issued regarding the granting of the license. In this regard, the Prosecutor's Office sees in this fact "a new crime against land management, in relation to the issuance of favorable reports for the granting of two classified activity licenses and/or in the issuance of decrees authorizing it".
Regarding José Montelongo, Medina also questioned in his complaint that the councilor signed the decree granting the license, when "only three months before he had required the company to stop and close its activity".
