The Criminal Chamber of the Superior Court of Justice of the Canary Islands (TSJC) has dismissed the appeal of the Public Prosecutor's Office against the order that rejected the complaint of the journalist Carlos Sosa, director of the digital newspaper Canarias Ahora, for alleged privileged information of the president of the PP of the Canary Islands and vice president of the Government of the Canary Islands, José Manuel Soria, when he presided over the Cabildo of Gran Canaria, regarding the wind farm tender, currently being investigated by the Justice.
According to the TSJC, the arguments of Sosa's complaint, which also included the former Minister of Industry of the Canary Islands Government, Luis Soria, brother of the president of the PP, and the latter's wife, María del Carmen Benítez, as well as the former president of the Port Authority of Las Palmas, José Manuel Arnáiz, referring to alleged indications, these have "no foundation whatsoever".
That is, the Chamber points out, the use of privileged information by the defendants regarding the future awarding of wind farms in the Canary Islands - a tender annulled by the Government precisely as a result of the judicial investigation of the case, with the former Director General of Industry, Celso Perdomo, as the main defendant - "is highly imprecise and therefore lacks content".
The judicial resolution is based precisely on that judicial investigation. Thus, the text of the dismissal of the appeal states that "there is no element that allows us to assume that there was any limitation in a broad investigation such as the colloquially called Eólico case".
On the other hand, and with respect to the alleged free enjoyment of the chalet of the businessman Javier Esquivel, with interests in the wind energy sector, by the Soria family, the TSJC explains that the argument that this property was ceded "as a gift", in addition to "an alleged presentation of false documents in a judicial body, facts apparently imputed the first to the person with parliamentary immunity [José Manuel Soria] and the second to his wife [María del Carmen Benítez], the prosecutor himself rejects the imputation" to the leader of the PP "saying that, in his opinion, there is no minimal evidentiary basis, which blurs the criminal conduct attributed to his spouse".
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