The judge of the Mediator case has requested the bank movements since January 2020 of several accounts related to the activities of the plot. Among them, those of the hotel restaurant where the former socialist deputy Juan Bernardo Fuentes Curbelo was staying in Madrid.

This is the hotel where Tito Berni celebrated “parties” with prostitutes paid by businessmen who sought the favors of the plot in the Canary Islands. The judge's resolution agrees to the Treasury's request to track the last three and a half years of movements in the account of that location, in which movements that it considers relevant to the case have been detected.

In particular, the judge focuses on what happened in April 2021, coinciding with one of those parties. In the local payment terminal, “there are two payments from an alleged party on 04/14/2021 linked to the POS of the La Carmela Restaurant located in the Victoria hotel where the former deputy is staying for an amount of €7,800 and €3,000” .

The investigated payment terminal is in the name of the company Resdibar SL, which operates the restaurant with “two forks, cafeteria and theater”.

The party was attended by, among others, the businessman Miguel Poveda Sierra, “who would pay for that party where company service would be provided at the hotel.”. The businessman had been “that morning with Curbelo in the Congress of Deputies”. In a chat located by the investigators, Poveda Sierra shows the payments to another businessman along with the text: “It's incredible.”

The judge highlights the “relevance” of the meetings at the hotel and considers that these payments are “the basis of the bribery under investigation”. “They are payments in kind that [the former deputy] receives from his efforts carried out by and for the group,” the order says.

“A common practice”

The judge adds that it is not “an isolated act, but on the contrary, “a habitual and continuous practice of payment of services, as it has been possible to demonstrate throughout the investigation, by recording numerous parties and meetings of this nature after the visits to the former deputy to Madrid by the businessmen […], these assuming the payment of such parties as payment of services for the management in favor of them, be it in contracts […] or in resolution of files”.

The list of suspicious bank movements includes those sent by the owner of the company that operates the restaurant to the couple of Marco Antonio Navarro Tacoronte, considered the mediator of the plot.. Shortly before the party, on April 12, he makes two transfers for a total of 25,850 euros.

Days later, the company account receives separate deposits of 10,000 euros from one of the accused businessmen, Raúl Gómez Rojo.. As a concept, it appears in the first “prize paid once” and in the following, “2nd prize paid Once”.

The order issued on Tuesday by the head of Investigation Court 4 of Tenerife, María de los Ángeles Lorenzo-Cáceres, authorizes the Treasury to collect “in as much detail as possible” the data “of all the movements of the bank accounts indicated from the January 1, 2020 to the present”, as well as “any other information and complementary documentation” that the investigators of the Tax Agency deem necessary.

S'ha Acabat! wants the Executive that emerges from the polls for the elections on July 23 to put an end to the “humiliating stage” of the presidency of Pedro Sánchez. “The longer this disastrous government lasts, the more Spain will suffer,” says the youth organization, which in the next few hours will publish a statement in which it will ask for political adherence to a decalogue of measures that put a stop to “the degradation suffered by the country”.

The Catalan entity will call for “a general commitment between the parties” to comply with this road map, in which, among other points, it demands that there be no pacts with the pro-independence forces, the vehicularity of Spanish in teaching or reversing the elimination of the crime of sedition in the Penal Code and cancel the modification made in the embezzlement of public funds.

Despite the fact that the name of the parties is not specified in the communiqué, the leaders of S'ha Acabat! They recognize that the only two formations that can feel challenged are the PP and Vox. “The PSOE could also be added if it recovers common sense, but that is currently impossible because Sanchismo has infected the party,” they point out.

The association against the independence movement demands that the new government “promise never to agree with the separatists, heirs of ETA and with those who do not respect the Constitution”. In turn, it demands “a clear and forceful response to those who seek to dismember the unity of Spain.”

Defense of Spanish

At a time when the arrival of the PP to the Balearic Government and the Valencian Generalitat could mean changes in the language policies of both autonomous communities, S'ha Acabat! wants “bilingualism to be real” throughout the country and to put an end to “the discrimination suffered by Spanish” in regions with more than one official language. For this reason, the group wants “that the law and judicial provisions regarding the use of Spanish are complied with” and that “a model of free choice of vehicular language” be offered in teaching.

The youth organization warns that the commitment must be unequivocal to “guarantee the linguistic rights of all citizens”. And, for this, it prevents against the repetition of “mistakes of the past”. “We do not want a Mariano Rajoy 2.0; we want real changes, not mere management”, those responsible for this newspaper point out.

Several legislative norms approved in recent years are in the crosshairs of S'ha Acabat!, which calls for the repeal of the Democratic Memory Law, the current Law on Universities and the Lomloe promoted by the former Minister of Education Isabel Celaá. It also demands that the Political Parties Law be complied with and that the illegalization of nationalist formations be studied.

Specifically, the patriotic entity advocates suspending the activity of EH Bildu because “it has people convicted of terrorism on its electoral lists and not only refuses to condemn ETA's terrorism, but whitewashes and praises it”. In this sense, S'ha Acabat! It also demands “that the approaches of ETA prisoners to prisons in the Basque Country be paralyzed and that they fully serve their sentences.”

The presentation of the Sumar candidates yesterday left an image that glimpses the sign of the new times that run in the alternative left to the PSOE. Yolanda Díaz stood in front of the family photo and, behind her, like someone who escorts her, the common people and Más Madrid emerged. The new coalition has overturned the old balances of power in the universe of Unidas Podemos and this is already taking shape in the attitudes that are defining what Sumar is and how it wants to reposition itself to get out of the political “corner of the board” and to recover the «centrality of the social».

Díaz is very clear about that course and has ordered that the GPS that guides Sumar's destiny in these elections on 23-J be solely that of “improving people's lives”. What would colloquially be called “things to eat”. For this reason, now that she has taken the car that Podemos was driving with her hands, she has swerved to change lanes.

The first thing he has done to pick up speed has been to drop ballast. Díaz has undone Podemos' culture wars and has imposed a drastic change in strategy, discourse, priorities and tones. The obsessive battle against “the media powers” to discredit the press or insults to journalists and businessmen and other blows typical of tramabús is over. That rhetoric is banished by Díaz and is relegated to the consumption of marginal spaces.. That agenda had its zenith in the regional and municipal election campaign with the leaders of Podemos placing it as one of its star themes and it also had its precipitous end there, with the crash at the polls.

The speeches in favor of “noise” and anger and about the belligerence of a “brave” left that faces another “cuqui”, cowardly and submissive to the powers, also die.. Or that of the “sewers”, NATO and “fascism” as ghosts that appear in every corner.

three axes

It's not that Díaz is going to simply tone down. It is that Sumar circulates and accelerates in a different lane, on a trip to centrality and real concerns. Coalition sources explain in this sense that the campaign will be carried out around “three axes”, which are environmentalism, feminism and people's lives.

This third priority is the one that Díaz is insisting on the most now, because he recognizes that “people are having a hard time” and that they need solutions to pay the rent, face the rise in variable mortgages or to be able to fill the basket of the buy with dignity. It is around these issues that he wants to build his electoral alternative by promising a “plan”. Yesterday, in fact, Sumar quantified the social emergency bonus that Díaz announced last Sunday for those who cannot afford the rise in variable mortgages due to the increase in rates at a thousand euros.

Within the chapter of “improving people's lives”, Díaz is also emphasizing working conditions, his area in the coalition government. It has already given some brushstrokes, which are along the lines of forcing companies to revalue wages when they have benefits or reducing the working day to 40 hours a week.. In the same way, among its promises is also promoting the conciliation of personal life, so that workers can leave earlier and have free time to enjoy their family and friends or life.

As the days go by, all these concepts will be landing, but they are already the discursive foundations of Sumar and with which it seeks to open a gap.. This new strategy is being reinforced with the emergence of new profiles and candidates. In most cases experts in those areas. New faces for a new strategy.

Apart from the important political burden, always against the backdrop of the general elections, the president of the Community of Madrid, Isabel Díaz Ayuso, recounted yesterday some of the guidelines of what will be her future regional government. A battery of measures ranging from the modification of the Trans-Autonomous Law to the discount on transport passes, through the reform of Higher Vocational Training or the drop in ratios in Secondary Education.

DISCOUNT ON TRANSPORT PASS.

Just eight days before the transport pass bonus, financed halfway between the central government and the Community of Madrid, ended, the president announced yesterday that her new government will maintain this 60% reduction until the end of the year. Also the reduction to 50% of the multi-trip tickets and the single ticket will always remain at 1.5 euros regardless of the stations that the user goes through.

Without leaving the powers of Transportation, the popular leader has promised to develop a conservation and monitoring contract for Line 7B in San Fernando de Henares with “a constant technical presence” to avoid incidents. At this time, circulation is non-existent in the area due to technical problems. In addition, the affected area on the surface will host a green area with sports facilities and gardens.

MORE COURT MARK IN TEACHING.

Education also found its space yesterday in the intervention of the regional president in which one of her proposals went through raising the degree of experimentalism of the Teaching degree. In practice, this means that the cut-off marks to access will be increased, equaling it to level 3 of Medicine, Pharmacy or some engineering. But it will also mean that students will have more options for curricular internships during their studies.

The popular leader also promised to finish the 20 unfinished educational centers in this legislature, build 13 new ones and build three Special Education centers, which will mean 900 new places. To this will be added the collaboration with the Royal Academy of Language or the Royal Academy of History so that they propose basic readings of classic texts or the creation of a General Directorate of Artistic Education.

NO LICENSES FOR HOSPITALITY.

Another of the lines in which the new Government of the Community of Madrid will advance will be the elimination of urban planning permits for the new hotel and restaurant businesses that are implemented in the region. Ayuso also pointed out that an aid plan for shops and businesses with more than 50 years operating in the capital will be started.

UP TO 50,000 HOUSES.

Already in the campaign, the regional president had announced that this would be “the legislature of housing”. Yesterday he promised to have 50,000 new homes in the Community during this mandate and that 13,000 of them are promoted by the Government through its different plans. Of the new homes, 1,200 will be included in the Young Solution Plan, with which they will be offered to people under 35 years of age for a monthly rent of less than 600 euros.

LESS TAXES.

There will be two rates on which the Community of Madrid will act directly and indirectly. The regional president promised to bring the bonus of the inheritance tax and donations to brothers, uncles and nephews, now at 25%, up to 50% and will force the PP municipalities to increase the bonus of capital gains. In the case of the Madrid town halls in the hands of the PSOE, they will be urged to do the same, which has already caused complaints in Fuenlabrada, Parla and Getafe for what they consider an “interference” in their powers as this is the second tax with which that collect the most

MORE CENTERS AND SUPPORT FOR MENTAL HEALTH.

Health, which became one of the tricky issues for Ayuso in the epilogue of the last legislature, will focus on digitization, above all with the intention of reducing waiting times. Ayuso's commitment yesterday was that there will be a delay of less than 45 days for cardiac, coronary or valve surgery; a maximum of 60 days for interventions without vital risk, such as cataracts or hip replacements, and a maximum of 90 days for the 25 most common procedures on the waiting list.

The regional government will also launch an oral health plan for the placement of prostheses and caries repair for people over 80 years of age and another for children in which glasses will also be financed. In addition, Madrid will have two new centers specializing in sexually transmitted infections -the Sandoval center will also open in the afternoon- and another for child and adolescent mental health research and prevention.

A NEW TRANS LAW.

As EL MUNDO had already announced, the Community of Madrid was working on new legislation for transsexual people that would allow them to modify Law 2/2016 and circumvent the one approved at the national level by the Ministry of Equality. Yesterday the popular leader confirmed that this would be one of the measures that will be taken in this new legislature, giving priority to the role of health professionals. De facto that means recovering psychological reports that are not required by national law.

Ayuso indicated that “legislative quality”, “the constitutionality of all articles of the law”, “educational and academic freedom” and “the non-criminalization of the intervention of professionals” will prevail. The regional leader also placed special emphasis on “equal opportunities for women in sport.” “No one is going to be left behind in their legitimate rights, but neither is social engineering going to be done at anyone's expense,” the president concluded.

The National Police is trying to locate a woman who, during May and June, allegedly defrauded 17 families to whom she rented an apartment that she did not own on Calle de Hortaleza, in the center of Madrid, near the Gran Vía. The case is being investigated by the agents of the Centro police station. The alleged scammer offered an attractive 50-square-meter furnished ground floor apartment on a website for a bargain of 720 euros, a very low price in the area where similar apartments are located for about 1,200 euros.

The scammer entered the house for rent in January and between April and May she leased it without the landlady's knowledge. Many people contacted her from whom she demanded a bizum of 100 euros as a signal. Then he stayed with the future tenants to sign the contract and receive between 1,500 and 2,100 euros. He even gave some of them the key to the house.

When the new tenants were arriving at the house last week, they found that the key would not open and that there was already a family living inside the house, Juan David and his partner, the first to rent the house to the alleged scammer.. When they called, the landlord opened them surprised, who explained that the house had already been rented by him. “Everyone had a key to the apartment, but they could not enter,” says Juan David, who in a day and a half was met with the arrival of 15 families. They had all been rented their houses by the same phony.

The Police calculate that the fake has been able to pocket between 15,000 euros and 20,000 euros with the scam. They try to track her down and hope to stop her very soon. Her supposed mobile phone does not give signals and nobody knows anything about her at the address where she supposedly lives. This is a woman in her 40s, dark-haired, with gray hair and no teeth. He has a police record for similar events.

The deception of those affected is similar, although some were scammed more money than others. Thanks to a review on the ad portal, it was attracting its victims. He showed several of them the furnished apartment. He asked some for 1,500 euros and others up to 2,500.

After visiting the house, he closed the contract. They paid him the money and he gave them the key. He agreed with the majority to enter between June 6 and 9. Some were delayed in their entry, alleging that the current tenants were delaying their departure. What the scammer did was change the lock before leaving, so the key she gave everyone was not going to allow her to enter the house. He only gave the real key to Juan David, the first tenant to enter the house after paying 1,200 euros and a deposit of 500 euros.

One of the victims is Marina, a 25-year-old girl. «They offered me the apartment for 700 euros and we fell. All our dreams vanished very quickly. Then I found out that he was renting it out and that the owners did not know anything, “he said yesterday.

Another of those affected is Naomi. They scammed her out of 2,300 euros. «I stayed with her so that she would give me the key, sign the contract and give her the rest of the money. He gave me the key that did enter the door of the house and the key that did enter the portal. Three days after paying and handing me the keys, as soon as I got home, my husband put the key in and couldn't open it.. More boys began to arrive, more people, more couples. He had deceived everyone, “added this woman.

Sandra, the real owner of the house, pointed out that she rented her house to the alleged fraudster five months ago for around a thousand euros. «Last Sunday an alarmed neighbor called me telling me that there was some altercation at the door of my house and what I found was some people living in my house that I did not know at all, another couple I think I remember, and at the moment they arrived yet another couple.” “Everyone had a key to the house and when they tried to open the key it would not enter,” added the owner.

The scammer had given all the victims different fake names and several cell phones. He signed a false contract and gave them a receipt for the money received.