The case of illegal licenses to hotels in Playa Blanca (Yaiza), which began in 2007, is reactivated this week with new statements before Court number 2 of Arrecife. This Tuesday, two businessmen are summoned to testify as defendants for alleged bribery: José Francisco Riquelme and Félix Leceta.
At nine in the morning, Riquelme, a historical figure of the PSOE of the Valencian Community, who was a regional deputy and mayor of the town of Villajoyosa between 1979 and 1987, is summoned to testify. He is one of the promoters of the Papagayo Arena Hotel and was one of the businessmen accused by the former mayor of Yaiza, José Francisco Reyes.
In one of his statements before the judge last October, the former mayor accused him and other businessmen, Ignacio Díaz de Aguilar and Joaquín Cañada, who have already testified before the Court. Reyes stated that they had given him money to grant them licenses in his municipality, although the former mayor later retracted his statement.
For his part, Leceta is related to several companies that built in the Playa Blanca partial plan. His summons arises from the statement of a witness who named him and two other businessmen, assuring that they had given Reyes 500,000 euros to grant them several urban planning licenses.
On Thursday, two businessmen
The other two businessmen, also charged with bribery, are José Ramón Olaverría and Ricardo Sánchez Armendáriz, and are summoned to testify next Thursday morning. They will do so before Judge Leticia Mateo, who has taken office this morning and who replaces María Dolores García Benítez in the Court, who has moved to her new destination in Ciudad Real.
In this case there are already about thirty defendants. In addition to Reyes, his wife and children, several municipal officials from Yaiza, the partners of one of his daughters, a dozen businessmen and representatives, bank employees and the lawyer and former secretary of the Arrecife City Council, Felipe Fernández Camero, who is considered one of the key figures in this alleged licensing scheme.
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