Several technicians from the City Council went to testify last week

The Prosecutor's Office sets its sights on the Arrecife City Council, in a new investigation of invoices and contracts under suspicion

Several technicians from the Arrecife City Council, including the secretary and those responsible for Contracting, Intervention and Treasury, went to the Arrecife Courts last week, within the framework of a new ...

January 18 2012 (00:09 WET)
The Prosecutor's Office sets its sights on the Arrecife City Council, in a new investigation of suspicious invoices and contracts
The Prosecutor's Office sets its sights on the Arrecife City Council, in a new investigation of suspicious invoices and contracts

Several technicians from the Arrecife City Council, including the secretary and those responsible for Contracting, Intervention and Treasury, went to the Arrecife Courts last week, within the framework of a new investigation opened by the Prosecutor's Office, which has once again set its sights on the capital's Consistory.

In addition to taking statements from several municipal workers, the prosecutor has requested a significant volume of documentation from the City Council, related to invoices and contracts carried out from 2008 onwards. That is, from the middle of the last legislature (shortly before "Operation Union" broke out and the motion of censure that gave the Mayor's Office to Cándido Reguera was signed), until this new term, after the elections of last May 2011.

The investigation would have been initiated as a result of a complaint, filed from a department of the Consistory itself, regarding alleged irregularities linked to payments to different companies.

As a result of that complaint, the Prosecutor's Office opened an investigation that, for the moment, has no defendants, but is following the trail of politicians linked to those contracts and those payments, and also of several company administrators.

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