The victim of the execution, committed in the parking lot of the School of Official Languages in La Verdellada, was experiencing financial difficulties in November 2017. According to his friend and boss, the National Police, lawyer and businessman Evaristo González Reyes has since taken Machín’s life and ordered the purchase of ten phones he used to talk to the “target” and the person who killed him.
It’s been five years businessman Carlos Machín Quintero was shot dead when he got into his car in the parking lot of La Laguna School of Official Languages in La Verdellada after leaving English classes. It was Tuesday night, April 17. The first ad talked about getting shot with a deceased. It was a quarter past him.
It was soon learned that the victim was linked to nightlife businesses in the university town. And these were not just any two places, but rather well-known places: Kapitel bar and El Palco nightclub. A native of Isora in El Hierro, Machín was responsible for the establishments, but has on several occasions been attributed to a prominent figure of the real estate, nightlife and lagoon accommodation industries. While the Science Police conducted the initial visual inspection and sample collection, the image of Machín lying facedown on the asphalt led us to executions typical of other communities, with crime levels much higher than in other communities. Canary Islands.
The truth is that even after five years, the trial of this case has not been held and there is not even a date planned for it. The alleged mastermind of lawyer and businessman Evaristo González Reyes; Ernesto Inocencio OH, the alleged perpetrator, alleged shooter, and the driver of the car used to escape, JG and five other suspects were released on parole today and are awaiting trial.
According to the sources referenced, the Prosecutor’s Office still does not have the qualification document that determines the demand for punishment for each defendant. For now, no data is given regarding the reasons for the slowdown in the process. The investigation of the Provincial Brigade of the Courthouse Police, which enabled the identification of the alleged perpetrators and collaborators, emerged 4 years ago after the arrests.
Key to the investigators’ work was the analysis of phone calls before and after the incident.
Seven months later, in January 2020, the case against Evaristo González began for the second separate part of the Corredor case, where he was charged with social security fraud, failing to register his workers and forgery, making false contracts and making false payrolls. so that some people can access pensions and unemployment benefits or buy goods and services through banks that no one will pay for later. The 9th High Criminal Court sentenced González Reyes to 8 years in prison. He appealed, however, and the Sixth Circuit of the County Court commuted the sentence to two and a half years in prison.
In 2012, the Corredor case came to public view, in which the National Police conducted an operation in which Evaristo was arrested for the aforementioned crimes. The lawyer spent several months in pre-trial detention. And Carlos Machín Quintero was also investigated in this procedure.
In 2015, a court order rescinded most of the wiretapping by the police. The justification is that the authority given by the judge to extend the wiretapping period is not included in the judicial file. González Reyes was convicted in 2019 by the Provincial Court in the first separate part of the above-mentioned matter.
Machín allegedly started a process of moving away from the nightlife business in La Laguna with the passage of time and had other projects, at least in theory, according to his circle. On the night of the murder, investigators found among his belongings a support for a mobile phone SIM card, not one of the two normally used by Machín. Hours after the execution, the victim’s wife found a phone she didn’t know existed in her home drawer and handed it over to the agents.
“Secret” communication between “Tito” and his ex-manager reached 788 in five months.
The terminal was probably used by Machín almost exclusively to talk to Evaristo. In other words, it was a security phone where he communicated with the lawyer and businessman he kept from his closest circle. The justification cited was the first part of a complex investigation that allowed agents to follow a lead against the alleged perpetrators of the murder.
According to agents, the card for this phone was purchased by JDSH, the son of a regular collaborator of González Reyes. The mobile phone found by the murdered man’s wife is an old model, does not have an internet connection or applications used by some people involved in illegal operations. However, JDSH also bought other terminals with the same features under its own name.
One made its last connection the day before Machín’s execution, the other was disabled a few hours before the murder. One of those cell phones was in the name of a resident of Evaristo’s chalet in Tacoronte. And it was on the victim’s agenda as Tito Tacoronte. This is the nickname some people call Evaristo.
Another terminal, whose number ended with 806, was in the name of a fake ID, and people like his older brother or law firm partner attorney Santiago M., who led the investigation, believe that the real user is Evaristo, as it comes up. 1,188 calls were recorded in lifetime use of this mobile phone. Of these, 798 were communications made with the secret phone number of Carlos Machín.
The alleged instigator and the person identified as the author of the material has been on the loose since May 2022.
However, the cell phone ending in 806 also communicated with another cell phone ending in 115 used by Ernesto Inocencio, the alleged perpetrator of the shootings, according to police. Regarding number 604 allegedly used by Tito, it was activated in November 2017. According to the investigation, the victim at that time was experiencing financial difficulties. It was operational every day for the next five months.
It was closed at 19:45 just hours before the execution. So were the next three days. The communications currently alleged to indicate the defendants’ involvement in the case are varied. For example, after the shooting and the car they were fleeing from La Verdellada was burned, JG, the driver involved, made eight consecutive phone calls to a third man’s cell phone, which later facilitated their escape to the south of the island. . For the Homicide Squad Group, this is an indication that JG wants the other collaborator to come urgently to get them out of Gracia, where the Renault Clío burned down and witnesses saw the shooter flee.