The Prosecutor's Office is investigating allegedly irregular invoices from the municipal bus service of Arrecife. For the moment, the Prosecutor's Office has already summoned two people to testify, who will have to testify on January 26 in Lanzarote as witnesses, after Comisiones Obreras brought these receipts to the attention of the prosecutor. In addition, the Prosecutor's Office has contacted the Arrecife City Council to request a list of the license plates of all municipal buses.
The invoices under investigation mainly correspond to the year 2009, which began with the PSOE-PIL government and ended with the socialists governing alone. However, the union also forwarded documentation corresponding to the current government group headed by Cándido Reguera to the Prosecutor's Office. Specifically, the specifications of the tender to privatize the management of the buses, where a survey carried out by the City Council was incorporated, in which they directly asked about a company. According to the union, this shows that this company was the "probable awardee", as they publicly denounced at the time.
According to these same sources, there are supposedly invoices from 2009 regarding the "repair of cars of some councilor or some City Council worker, and that have been paid by the City Council." Specifically, by the Transportation area. "There are also gasoline vouchers when the buses run on diesel and windshield replacements for cars," they indicate.
After the current government group took the privatization of the buses to the plenary session, arguing that the service was "deficient", Comisiones Obreras had access to these invoices, and decided to bring them to the attention of the Anti-Corruption Prosecutor's Office.
Now, two people must testify as witnesses before the Lanzarote Prosecutor's Office on January 26.