The Supreme Court has left the Senator Pedro Sanginés, of the Canarian coalition, accused of false denouncing a businessman in 2009, when the parliamentarian presided over the insular council of Lanzarote. The decision comes after the Prosecutor’s Office resorted to the case file, which is now waiting for the parties to present their accusation writings.
The case against the Canarian coalition senator arrived at the Supreme Court in February 2024. He is accused of going in 2009 to police units of Costa Teguise and denouncing irregularities in a public hiring process. Acts that, the Prosecutor’s Office said, were false: he acted “with the intention of missing the objective truth, and with manifest contempt for it” and ratified his lies, according to the Prosecutor’s Office, in judicial headquarters after swearing or promising to tell the truth.
That day, at the police station, he pointed to an entrepreneur in the reform sector as responsible for those alleged irregularities. A Arrecife Court opened a case and the senator today ratified in judicial headquarters, forced to tell the truth as a witness, its version of the facts. He did, says the Prosecutor’s Office, “missing the objective truth.” He did the same again eight years later, in October 2019, maintaining his charges.
That cause was ended by filing in November of that year, and then the performances headed against him. At first, the supreme chose to file the case but the criminal hall urged its reopening and the last movement of the instructor has been to issue an abbreviated procedure against him and propose to be judged after the prosecution of the Prosecutor’s Office and the private prosecution prospered.
