The Las Palmas Prosecutor's Office has defended the legality of its actions in the "Unión" case against the complaints of manipulation expressed by the defendants in the largest alleged corruption case being investigated in the Canary Islands. In recent weeks, the defenses of some of the defendants have expressed their suspicions about the investigation, while the first investigating judge in the case, César Romero Pamparacuatro, has filed a complaint about the alleged disappearance of at least 21 original orders from the case.
In an Efe interview, which has been picked up by La Provincia, the chief prosecutor of Las Palmas, Guillermo García Panasco, has assured that none of these incidents affect the accusations made by the Prosecutor's Office in two of the most important parts of this case. In this sense, he has assured that both the process against the businessman Luis Lleó, as well as the one affecting the former president of the Cabildo, Dimas Martín, and the former regional Minister of Employment, Francisco José Rodríguez Batllori, will go to trial.
García Panasco has insisted that the suspicions and complaints filed do not affect the position of the Public Prosecutor's Office, because "everything that has been the subject of accusation has been obtained from what is stated in the proceedings and with sufficient probative material to act." This same Thursday, La Sexta broadcast a report on the "Unión" case, in which García Panasco also stated that the Prosecutor's Office understood that it had "more than enough probative material to support the accusations made in court."
In the interview with Efe, the chief prosecutor of Las Palmas also considers it "madness" to maintain that Judge César Romero Pamparacuatro agreed to the entries and searches after they had already been carried out. "There is no evidence of that, but just the opposite," he said, in response to the macro-lawsuit announced by the defenses of some of the defendants. Read the full story in La Provincia.
