Pedro Jacinto Martín Rivero, former councilor of the Socialist Party in the Teguise City Council, will be in the dock next Thursday to answer for alleged continued crimes of forgery of a commercial document and fraud against what was his party. The former councilor, who will be tried by the Provincial Court of Las Palmas, faces a request from the prosecutor of six years in prison.
The events date back to the last legislature, when Pedro Martín was a councilor of La Villa and, according to the Public Prosecutor's Office, he shared a checkbook from a bank account of the PSOE with another councilor, where the party deposited funds for the operation of the socialist group in this City Council. According to the Prosecutor's Office document made public by the EFE agency, the accused, "acting with the intention of illicit patrimonial benefit and in the period between September 1, 2004 and October 10, 2005, filled out and forged" up to six checks, imitating the signature of the other councilor.
In total, Pedro Martín allegedly took 5,518 euros from that account, and the Prosecutor's Office requests, in addition to a six-year prison sentence, that he return that money to the Socialist Party and pay a fine of 4,320 euros, in addition to paying the costs of the trial.
In the oral hearing, which is scheduled to be held next Thursday, the 31st, several politicians from the Teguise City Council and organic positions of the party are called to testify as witnesses.
