Former deputy of the PSOE for the state of Las Palmas Juan Bernardo Fuentes Curbelo was arrested at his home this Monday. Fuerteventura in the framework of the ‘Mediator case’ investigation.
HE majorero socialist politician He resigned from his position in the House of Representatives on Tuesday night after learning of his alleged involvement in the gathering of illegal commissions in a fraud and blackmail scheme against businessmen and farmers from the Canary Islands.
Juan Bernardo Fuentes Curbelo (Puerto del Rosario, 1962) occupied the seat that Elena Máñez vacated in Congress in 2020, until she was forced to leave her seat in the Lower House last week. He previously served as the General Manager of Livestock. He was going to launder the family bites he used to ‘catch’ the peninsula businessmen through Tetir Football Club and Tetir Agency. Fuentes was the president of that club.
The Majorero socialist made a so-called demand. Transfer worth 5,000 Euros to these owners contribution to helping football school children of their sporting presence so they can continue to develop their passions.
modus operandi
Fuentes’ way of working began when businessmen visited the Congress of Deputies, chaired by the former MP. After receiving them at his proxy office, Fuentes showed them around the Lower Council building. later, They were going to dine at a restaurant in Madrid, at which time the party began.which took hours and which paid for by cheese producers and farmers themselveswho come to pay up to 3,500 euros for each frenzy. In the Spanish capital, the stars of those nights were alcohol, cocaine, Viagra and prostitutes. They tried to keep everything very secret in order to avoid surprises and preserve the image of the Majorero politician. This was the first step to enter the plot. double slope. On the one hand, various farmers and cheesemakers in the Canary Islands were extorted by the promise of lifting sanctions against them or getting more subsidies to do their business. On the other hand, they turned to peninsular businessmen who wanted to settle in the Special Region of the Canary Islands (ZEC) in exchange for bribes and other cash payments, as well as pay for their flight, meal or hotel accommodation. Juan Bernardo Fuentes and his nephew Taishet were also surveyed and the former Director-General of Livestock of the Government of the Canary Islands was in charge of the first leg. The second is Francisco Espinosa Navas, a Civil Guard general and former colonel chief of Las Palmas Command, for whom the judge ordered provisional arrest last week.
Former MP companies threatened to run out of subsidies promised to impose possible sanctions or obtain other assistance if they do not engage in conspiracy and, on the contrary, yield to their aims. Juan Bernardo Fuentes is the pinnacle of the whole conspiracy for the investigators, and below him is his nephew. taishet; Marco Antonio Navarro Tacoronteso-called mediator because it mediated between different actors and Francisco Espinosa Navas.
In the investigated plot National Police and Santa Cruz de Tenerife Investigation Court No. 4, Juan Bernardo He was known as ‘Tito Berni’.
in total twelve among the leaders (Marcos Navarrete Tacorote, nicknamed the ‘mediator’, Civil Guard general Francisco Espinosa NavasTaishet Fuentes Gutierrez And Juan Bernardo Fuentes Curbelo), collaborators (Miguel Angel Robayna Garcia And Raul Gomez Red), farmers and cheese makers from the Canary Islands (alberto montesdeocaEsteban Banús Ricoma, Inmaculada Roca and Julian Santa Barbara Perez) and peninsular businessmen (Antonio Bautista Prado And Jose Santiago Suarez Esteve).
There will be expansion.