2023-09-18 19:20:33
The lawyer of Marco Antonio Navarro Tacoronte, the intermediary who gives name to the “Mediator case”, has alleged before the Santa Cruz de Tenerife Court that his client was “coerced” to hand over the telephones on which he kept the recordings, written messages and photos that uncovered the existence of an alleged corruption plot.
The PSOE says that the previous Canarian Government began an investigation in Ganadería for the Mediator case
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This is what the lawyer Rachid Mohamed Hammu raises in his appeal against the decision of the judge in charge of the case not to accept his request for annulment of proceedings, due to the alleged helplessness of Navarro Tacoronte, who was assisted at the beginning of the case by another lawyer.
The lawyer maintains that the crime that led to the arrest of Navarro Tacoronte at the end of January (an alleged fraud of 2,575 euros on a credit card) “has nothing to do with the one that began” later for bribery and influence peddling against a long list of public officials and businessmen.
His appeal points to a “certain coercive element” in what happened in those hours in which the “Mediator” went from being accused of fraud to testifying without legal assistance in the new procedure, “without complying with the observance and respect for his fundamental rights.” , from your point of view.
The lawyer believes that the unrestricted permission given at the time by Navarro Tacoronte for the Court and the Police to extract the content of his cell phone could be null and void, given that a witness or a defendant cannot testify against himself.
In her response to the appeal, the investigating judge expresses her surprise at the fact that the investigators are being turned into those investigated and the police work already her own is being questioned “gratuitously” by pointing out the existence of irregularities in the arrest and in the following phases.
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