Arrested for drug trafficking and money laundering the police that initiated the investigation of the ‘Tito Berni Case’ | Spain
The National Police have arrested nine people in the Canary Islands as alleged members of an organization dedicated to drug trafficking. Among those arrested are three police officers, according to El País sources close to the investigations. One of them is Inspector Francisco Moar, already retired and who as head of the Provincial Brigade of the Judicial Police of Santa Cruz de Tenerife began Baptized corruption research as Mediating casein which it was involved The former national deputy Juan Bernardo Fuentes Cuberloknown as Tito Berni.
The now detained, including the three agents, are accused of the crimes of belonging to criminal organization, drug trafficking, money laundering, bribery and false documentary. The investigation is directed by Arona’s Instruction number 3 (Tenerife), which has decreed the secret of the proceedings.
In it Mediating casewhich began at the end of 2021, an alleged corrupt plot is investigated in the that the former socialist deputy Juan Bernardo Fuentes Curbelo He was the main defendant, together with his nephew and exalted position of the Canarian government Taishet Fuentes and the retired general of the Civil Guard Francisco Javier Espinosa. According to the investigation, Fuentes Curbelo – for which the Prosecutor’s Office asks for two and a half years in jail in the main piece of the case – allegedly used its condition, first, of general director of the Canarian Executive and then, later, of deputy In the Congress of Deputies as of February 2020 to promise entrepreneurs the possibility of avoiding health inspections, expediting and unlocking European aid files or facilitating the achievement of contracts.
The alleged plot came to light in December 2021, after a socialist position on the islands went to the police station to denounce Marco Antonio Navarro Tacoronte ―Considerate the Arma’s Cever and that for this mediator role he gave name to the case – for the alleged fraudulent use of a card with several positions that added 2,575 euros. Navarro responded to the accusations by delivering in the court two mobile phones in whose memoirs he treasured documents, photographs and audios that allowed to uncover the corruption plot.
The now detained policeman then took care of the investigation, but later he was separated from it after accusing his workplace officers, wanting to bury the investigations and different irregularities. Among them, the alleged disappearance of the safe of his office at the Mobile Police Station that the plot mediator had delivered. Shortly after, the telephones appeared in police units in custody of another police unit, which ended them contributing to the court that instructed the Mediating case.
