Vicente Bartolomé Fuentes is no longer the municipal secretary of the Yaiza Town Hall. More than a month after the Supreme Court handed down a final judgment against him for a continued crime against land planning and sentenced him to five years of disqualification, the secretary has left the southern Council to comply with this court ruling, as confirmed to La Voz by councilman Francisco Guzmán.
The Yaiza Town Hall has temporarily appointed Esteban García as acting secretary, a local police officer in this Council and former manager of the Lanzarote Security and Emergency Consortium. However, it hopes to be able to fill the position permanently.
In addition, the surveyor of the Technical Office, Pablo Carrasco Cabrera, has also been suspended, although in this case provisionally, who was sentenced together with Bartolomé Fuentes to five years of disqualification. The Council has sent a query to the Civil Service and the Provincial Court, which convicted these technicians in the first instance, to find out if Carrasco must leave the Council or can continue working in another department.
It should be remembered that the mayoress, Gladys Acuña, assured that she would relocate one of the convicted technicians, Pablo Carrasco, to another department, because he was disqualified "solely and exclusively for his work in the Technical Office".
Both technicians were convicted more than a year and a half ago by the Provincial Court, but they appealed the sentence to the Supreme Court, which ratified it, although it partially accepted the appeal regarding the imposed penalty. The Supreme Court sentenced them to five years of disqualification and imposed a fine of 7,200 euros each.
The events for which they were convicted date back to 1999, when the Town Hall granted licenses to build nine chalets located on a plot between Las Breñas and Femés. As stated during the trial by the prosecutor, Ignacio Stampa, the judgment considered it proven that both Vicente Bartolomé Fuentes and Pablo Carrasco issued favorable reports, knowing that it was rustic land and could not be built on.
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