Antonio Navarro Taraconte warned the now former socialist deputy Juan Bernardo Fuentes Curbelo of the reservation in a Madrid restaurant
MADRID, 28 Feb. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The Civil Guard has located the presumed members of the so-called ‘Mediator’ plot – which recruited businessmen under the promise of “obtaining privileges” in terms of public contracting – in a meeting in a restaurant in Madrid with members of the PSOE: “At nine o’clock at night in the Ramses. Table for fifteen people. Only people from the Socialist Party. Those from Vox, nor Podemos, nor dragged Catalans, nor all those strange people can enter.”
This is stated in the summary – to which Europa Press has had access – of the investigation that is being followed in the Investigating Court Number 4 of Santa Cruz de Tenerife, in a letter of September 2022 from the Benemérita contributed to the procedure in the that the now ex-socialist deputy Juan Bernardo Fuentes Curbelo appears as the main investigated; his nephew Taishet Fuentes Gutiérrez, General Director of Livestock; the General of the Civil Guard Francisco Espinosa Navas; and the Canarian businessman Antonio Navarro Taraconte, also known as the ‘mediator’.
According to the official letter of the Civil Guard, on October 21, 2020 Navarro Taraconte sent a message to the then socialist deputy Fuentes Curbelo to confirm that he had already closed a dinner in a Madrid restaurant for about 15 diners. “Only people from the socialist party,” he noted.
That day the ‘mediator’ sent an audio to the leader in which he said: “They are going to give me a menu if you want to pass it on to my colleagues.” “I’ll pass it on to you to see what you’re interested in. If you’re interested, you could have dinner there, and drinks there. It goes without saying that your food, Antonio’s, and mine are in charge of my companies, okay?” he added.
According to the agents, the then PSOE deputy replied: “OK. Give me what you have.” However, once he received the budget, Fuentes Curbelo considered that the price was high. “Isn’t this menu a little high?” he asked.
In the summary it is stated that Navarro Taraconte explained to him that the price was appropriate for the restaurant that it was. “Well then… man, it’s the Ramses, okay? He’s the Ramses. I see it as a good price,” he said.
In line, the businessman sent him another audio in which he highlighted the reserved nature of the dinner. “Hey, the reserved area is fucking great. Total tranquility. There are some screens on. Nobody has access to us and until the time we want, okay? No weird rolls, okay? Calm down,” he stressed.
In an interview granted last Friday to Cope Canarias and collected by Europa Press, Navarro Taraconte assured that the president of the Canary Islands, Ángel Víctor Torres, was informed of the efforts being made in a structure in which he placed Fuentes as the “visible head”. Curbelo.
The Canarian businessman, located in the investigation as a ‘mediator’ of the plot and key in providing two mobile phones that collect recordings and photographs, admitted in said interview that he organized “parties” to which up to fifteen deputies from his group joined .
He indicated that he has always ‘worked’ for the PSOE and that is why no one from CC or PP is involved. In addition, he insisted that “every night”, between Tuesdays and Thursdays – regular days of sessions in Congress – they went to brothels or received prostitutes in hotels.
“It was like the end of the year party, with catering and photo catalogs,” he explained, noting that this happened during 2021 and 2022, even in a pandemic — he said about Bernardo Fuentes -. Likewise, he specified that there were also women deputies.
According to the summary of the investigation, Navarro Taraconte told the nephew of the deputy and also director of Livestock of the Canary Islands, Taishet Gutiérrez, that he advised two ministers and three senators. And he assured that the regional president, Ángel Víctor Torres, wanted to see him.
