Vox also takes the ‘Meditor case’ to the control session with a question for the Minister of Finance and ‘number two’ of the PSOE
MADRID, 5 Mar. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The PP doubts that the Minister of the Interior, Fernando Grande-Marlaska, found out through the press about the investigation into the former socialist deputy from the Canary Islands Juan Bernando Fuentes Curbelo, the alleged ringleader of the ‘Mediator’ plot, and wants to take advantage of the control session to Government next Wednesday to ask him directly in Congress.
The PP wants to know that information because the PSOE maintains that it forced Fuentes Curbelo to leave his seat that day, even before the details of the plot for which he was arrested days later were revealed.
The alleged case of corruption jumped to the media on February 14 and initially reported the arrest of a former director of livestock of the Canarian government, Taishet Fuentes, and the retired general Francisco Javier Espinosa Navas, who was in charge of the command of the Civil Guard of Las Palmas.
In these first reports it was said that the examining magistrate of Tenerife was also investigating deputy Fuentes Curbelo, Taishet’s uncle and his predecessor in office. However, his arrest did not take place until a week later, during the search of his home on the island of Fuerteventura.
Socialist sources have revealed that, on the same Tuesday that the first information on the ‘Meditor case’ was published, the federal leadership of the PSOE summoned the former deputy to notify him of the opening of an expulsion file and to demand that he immediately resign from the seat, an exceptional measure which Fuentes Curbelo resisted, appealing to his presumption of innocence, but which he ended up assuming.
And hours later, on the same Tuesday afternoon, the 14th, his resignation from the act of deputy was revealed, when it was known that he was being investigated but the details that are now known about his key role in the plot, his meetings with businessmen, had not yet come out in Congress and its parties with drugs and prostitutes.
This quick reaction from the Federal Executive of the PSOE surprised the “popular” ranks and for this reason the spokesperson for the Interior of the PP, Ana Vázquez, and the Canarian deputies of the Popular Group already asked to know through a written question when the minister knew that there was a deputy socialist investigated for corruption.
And it is that from the PP they have assured Europa Press that the director of the Civil Guard, the socialist María Gámez, was informed of the operation from the first moment since there was a retired general among the detainees.
On Wednesday it will be the PP deputy from the Canary Islands Ana Zurita who will ask the minister directly a question so that the head of the Interior explains how long he knew that the person who was a deputy of the PSOE was being investigated until last February 14.
Until now, the Minister of the Interior has been affirming before the media that he found out about this case at the same time as the media, assuring that “when the causes are secret” he has them “like the rest of society”.
Vox has also registered a question about the ‘Mediator case’, but, in his case, addressed to the Minister of Finance, María Jesús Montero. The signature was signed by the general secretary of the Vox group in Congress, José María Figaredo, who will try to get the also deputy general secretary of the PSOE to inform the Chamber of “what the Ministry of Finance is going to do to track the public funds spent” by the members of that plot.
