The Provincial Court of Las Palmas has sentenced the mayor of Arrecife (Lanzarote) Isabel Déniz to 10 and a half years in prison and 42 years of disqualification from public office between 2001 and 2007, considering her the author of two crimes of fraud against the administration, two of bribery and two of prevarication.
This Monday the court made public the sentence of the last of the pieces of the Union casea scheme of bribery by business executives to political officials and public officials in Lanzarote to obtain favorable treatment in the awarding of contracts at the City Council of the island capital.
The ruling includes sentences for 9 of the 16 defendants, including the former president of the Lanzarote Council and founder of the Independent Party of Lanzarote (PIL), Dimas Martín, who adds a new sentence of two and a half years in prison to his criminal record. and 12 of disqualification for fraud against the administration and bribery, all with the mitigating circumstance of having confessed guilty, contrary to what Isabel Déniz did, who denied having committed any crime.
The former head of the Arrecife Technical Office has also been convicted, who at the hearing acknowledged the acts of which he was accused. His sentence is increased to three and a half years, plus disqualification for the crimes of fraud, prevarication, bribery and revelation of secrets. The rest of those convicted are representatives of Urbaser (Tecmed) and FCC.
Déniz, who was a councilor for the PIL, was also a deputy in the Parliament of the Canary Islands. Another arrested is the socialist Miguel Ángel Leal, former councilor of the Cabildo. The case broke out in 2010, the year in which Déniz herself, Dimas Martín and six other people from various political parties were arrested in a notorious operation carried out by the Civil Guard.
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