The Public Prosecutor's Office has sent this Wednesday to the Criminal Chamber of the Superior Court of Justice of the Canary Islands a report stating that, after a careful examination of the testimony of individuals sent by the Investigating Court number 6 of San Bartolomé de Tirajana in the publicly known as 'Mogán Case', "there are no sufficient indications of the commission of a criminal act against any person with jurisdiction", so it is appropriate to reject the competence of the Chamber. In this way, it rules out any involvement of the President of the Government of the Canary Islands, Adán Martín, and the Minister of the Environment, Domingo Berriel.
For its part, the Government has asked that the full content of the recorded conversations and all the content of the summary that affects the members of the Government be made public to make it clear that there has been an action in accordance with the law. It considers that "from some official instance" it has been filtered "partially and with interest" to damage the president.
The Government of the Canary Islands, through its spokesperson, Miguel Becerra, issued a statement this afternoon in which it demands that the secrecy of the proceedings around the separate piece sent by the judge of 'Operation Góndola' to the TSJC, in which the possible commission of a crime of influence peddling by persons with jurisdiction was mentioned, be lifted as soon as possible.
The note from the Government of the Canary Islands was sent to the media a few minutes before the Prosecutor's Office of the TSJC announced that "there are no sufficient indications of the commission of a criminal act against any person with jurisdiction".
In the note from the regional Executive, the Government's spokesperson demands that the secrecy of the proceedings be lifted as soon as possible in view of the "defenselessness" in which the President of the Government, Adán Martín, finds himself, since there is "speculation" about a possible crime of influence peddling based on what the Government considers "partial and interested leaks", and always without any official communication and without the President and the members of the Government who are mentioned knowing what this separate piece contains.
Becerra recalls that since the initial leak of the existence of this separate piece, "there has been public speculation and conjecture about the existence of possible and unfounded responsibilities in matters of influence peddling on the part of the President [as well as other members] of the Government of the Canary Islands, based solely on a telephone conversation with the promoter of Anfi-Tauro, in which he requested information on the processing of his file.
In fact, the Government recalls that "until now the actions taken have not been officially communicated to the Presidency of the Government, nor has the complete and textual content of the aforementioned telephone conversation been provided to the citizens, as would be desirable to verify what is the true background of the veiled accusations".
Moreover, Becerra points out that from "some official instance, they are letting glimpse every day with partial and very possibly interested leaks, tending to hurt the good image of honesty, work and public service accredited by President Adán Martín in his 28 years of dedication to public institutions".
In the note, the Government of the Canary Islands recalls that last Monday it reported extensively on the substance of the matter, reporting on the processing of the Anfi-Tauro file, "where it is clearly demonstrated that the disproportionate initial demand for beds (7,500) has been reduced to less than a quarter (1,690)".
Thus, Becerra argues that "in such a way that any demands -in one tone or another- that the company Anfi-Tauro has been able to express in the 15 months of processing have found the due hearing contemplated in the laws and the final response, adjusted to law, of the two departments of the competent Government, pending its elevation to the Government and, subsequently, to the Parliament of the Canary Islands, which is the one that finally decides on the declarations of general interest of the four pending tourist projects".
In all this framework, it is when Becerra considers that there are "manifest conditions of defenselessness of the President of the Government of the Canary Islands [and by extension of the Institution itself], since the only forceful way to refute the interested leaks is the public knowledge of the aforementioned conversation recorded to the President".
"That is why -he continues- it is requested from now on that the secrecy of the proceedings be lifted as soon as possible. And this is so that the due public light is put where there is only darkness, half-truths, phrases taken out of context and multiple prejudices in parallel to the judicial proceedings themselves for which the Government continues to express its respect".
The Executive demands that "it is necessary to guarantee the custody of all the material in the separate piece: "original" tapes, "complete" transcriptions of the conversations to ensure that none are excluded, police reports and police requests addressed to the judicial body, in order to see in what facts or conversations they base a preposterous presumption of influence peddling".
The Government concludes that "in any case, it is necessary to guarantee effective judicial protection".
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