The PSOE of Lanzarote will formally demand explanations from Oswaldo Betancort for what it considers a “political and administrative botch” in the hiring of legal assistance provided to the Councilor for Waste of the Cabildo de Lanzarote, Domingo Cejas, in relation to the judicial proceedings opened by the Zonzamas fire.
The socialists will request the complete hiring file to verify how, when, by whom, and under what justification said service was processed, after it became known that the case had allegedly been dismissed in March and that, however, the hiring of legal defense was allegedly formalized on May 21.
The councilor of the Socialist Group in the Cabildo de Lanzarote, Benjamín Perdomo, has announced that they will also request a report from the Corporation's Intervention on the legality of the procedure followed, considering that the known deadlines require an immediate explanation from the island government.
“We are facing a very serious sequence: a case that is dismissed in March, a legal defense that appears formalized on May 21, and a government that has still not clearly explained who requested this service, when it was actually provided, and why it was processed in this way,” Perdomo stated.
The socialist councilor has warned that “if the lawyer had already acted before the contract existed, the Cabildo will have to explain why the corresponding legal channels were not followed.” Likewise, he added that “if the service was initially assumed by Domingo Cejas in a personal capacity, it should also be clarified why it later entered the island administration and under what formula.”
“The question is obvious: why was the hiring not formalized when the service was supposedly needed? Why was it done months after the case was dismissed? Was an attempt made to prevent the decree from appearing earlier in a hiring file? Was relevant information hidden from the civil servants and the Intervention?” he asked.
Perdomo has stressed that there are administrative avenues to deal with services provided without a prior contract, but he has emphasized that “Oswaldo Betancort's government cannot build a file late and poorly to cover up an uncomfortable situation or to try to regularize in any way what was not done correctly from the beginning.”
In this regard, the PSOE will request the complete file, including the hiring proposal, technical and legal reports, the audit by the Treasury, the invoice, the actual date of service provision, the award resolution, and any document related to the justification of the expense.
“We want to know who requested this hiring, when it was requested, what was reported, what each area knew, and if the law was followed. Because here we are talking about public money intended for a defense linked to a legal case that the insular government kept hidden from the public,” stated Perdomo.
“First they hid that Domingo Cejas had been investigated. Now it is time to clarify if they also tried to fix the hiring of his defense late and poorly. This political and administrative botch is unbecoming of an institution like the Cabildo de Lanzarote, and Oswaldo Betancort must provide explanations,” concluded Benjamín Perdomo.
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