The President of the Government of the Canary Islands, Ángel Víctor Torres (i), talks with the Minister of Public Administrations and Justice and Security, Julio Pérez (d), during the last Governing Council, this Thursday. EFE / Miguel Barreto
Las Palmas de Gran Canaria (EFE) statements that he has made in various media.
In several interviews broadcast this Friday, Navarro Tacoronte has maintained that Torres knew what was happening in the Ministry of Agriculture, where files were allegedly archived or sanctions were reduced against ranchers in exchange for bribes that, among other things, one of those involved in allegedly charged. the plot, Taishet Fuentes, general director of Livestock until last summer.
This morning, Torres had already emphatically denied that he knew anything of what the “Mediator case” has revealed and has stressed that, had he been aware of Navarro’s dealings or the rest of the detainees, he would have gone immediately to Justice.
An official spokesperson for the Government of the Canary Islands told EFE this afternoon that, after analyzing the content of the different statements made by the intermediary, Torres “has ordered that as many legal actions be taken as necessary in light of the serious and false accusations made” against him “in different media by Marco Antonio Navarro Tacoronte”.
“The person being investigated has made false accusations, asserting that the president was aware of the plot that is being investigated by the courts,” added the source. EFE
