The councilor of the Yaiza City Council and former mayor of this town, José Francisco Reyes, of the Lanzarote Nationalist Party (PNL), has been arrested by police officers within the framework of Operation "Unión", which investigates an alleged payment of illegal commissions in several official institutions of Lanzarote, as La Voz de Lanzarote has learned.
Reyes was arrested this Thursday by agents of the Civil Guard at his home located in Femés and has been transferred to the Civil Guard barracks of Costa Teguise.
After testifying in police custody, the former mayor of Yaiza has been brought to justice and this Thursday afternoon he will be questioned in the Court of First Instance and Instruction Number 5 of Arrecife, as an accused, as reported by the Superior Court of Justice of the Canary Islands (TSJC).
Reyes, who is currently sentenced for prevarication to ten years of disqualification for the granting of a building permit on rustic land in the case of Yaiza, was mayor of the southern town between 1994 and 2008, until he was deposed in a motion of censure that granted the mayoralty to Gladys Acuña, of the PIL, also accused in the 'Unión' operation.
José Francisco Reyes, who is part of the opposition in the Yaiza City Council, is also charged with irregularities in the Costa Roja Partial Plan and in the case of illegal licenses to hotels. Recently, the former mayor assured the media that his only source of income at present is unemployment benefit.
