We only need the folk singer now. For those who were outraged by the article published months ago by the newspaper El País, under the title "A Marbella emerges in Lanzarote", the judicial news is giving a bath of ...
We only need the folk singer now. For those who were outraged by the article published months ago by the newspaper El País, under the title "A Marbella emerges in Lanzarote", the judicial news is giving a bath of evidence. The economic amounts will be different and also the number of defendants, but both on this island and in the city of Marbella, a plot dedicated to urban corruption has been uncovered, with the indictment of politicians, businessmen, municipal technicians and even lawyers.
In reality, what was put on the table then was what many in Lanzarote were striving to hide. What is now beginning to come to light. And regardless of comparisons about whether a greater territorial disaster has been achieved in the Andalusian town, the central axis is exactly the same: institutions corrupted by corrupt politicians and by businessmen willing to bribe and commit crimes to achieve their objectives.
And in the case of Lanzarote, these objectives included obtaining illegal licenses and carrying out partial plans, but also obtaining contracts for works, speeding up the payment of invoices or any other matter that had to do with the administration, as also highlighted by Operation "Unión". And according to the investigation of the Reyes case and the one carried out by César Romero Pamparacuatro, for some everything could be for sale.
Therefore, throwing your hands up in the air when comparing Lanzarote with Marbella, marked by the Malaya case, was only wanting to deny a reality that the Investigating Courts Number 2 and Number 5 of Arrecife are finally uncovering now.
Instead of the GIL, we had the PIL, a party that also revolves around the figure of a person. Jesús Gil in one case, Dimas Martín in the other. Popular politicians among the people, but more than controversial in their management and with judicial convictions behind them. And in the case of Dimas, controlling the party even from the Tahíche Penitentiary Center.
We had a tourist town, Playa Blanca, which in a short time multiplied its number of beds, in this case under the shadow of José Francisco Reyes and, according to the indictment made by the judge, with the alleged collaboration of the secretary of the City Council, a municipal technician and the lawyer Felipe Fernández Camero, supposed link between the businessmen and the Yaiza City Council.
We had a Cabildo that, like the Junta de Andalucía, threw its hands up in the air when it saw what was being done behind its back from a City Council. In the case of the Lanzarote institution, it repeatedly appealed to the courts. In the case of the Andalusian one, it even managed to withdraw the powers in urban planning from the City Council, once the plot began to be uncovered.
Saying that "a Marbella emerges in Lanzarote" is not talking about aesthetic, environmental or economic comparisons. It simply reflects that if corruption was rampant in that Andalusian town, this island was not far behind. And in case we had few ingredients to prove it, now we even have one of the lawyers in the Malaya case, Pablo Luna, who in addition to defending the former mayor of Marbella, Marisol Yagüe, will also defend José Francisco Reyes. It must be for the money!
So with two corruption plots in Lanzarote on the table, half a hundred defendants between the two, tracking money in search of possible tax havens, entire families arrested and charged, as if it were Julián Muñoz and his ex-wife, and even a lawyer from that case, all we need is the tonadillera from Cantora to complete the picture.
But in the absence of La Pantoja, whose role has not yet been filled, the rest of the elements are there. Including the first confrontation between the defendants, with the announcement of a lawsuit against Reyes by Ignacio Díaz de Aguilar, and the alleged attempt now by the former mayor of Yaiza to backtrack on his statement, after having given the names and surnames of the businessmen who supposedly bought his favors.
And all this, before a society that moves between indignation at confirming what has been happening on the island in recent years, and satisfaction that Justice is finally acting with all the consequences.
