The mediator asks the judge of the 'Tito Berni case' that the Police stop analyzing his mobile and return it to him
Marco Antonio Navarro Tacoronte, the man who allegedly mediated in the corrupt plot that has former PSOE deputy Juan Bernardo Fuentes Curbelo as its “upper vertex”, wants to pulverize the legal case after, according to the summary, having been the key to open it.
His lawyer, Rachid Mohamed Hammu, has asked the judge to revoke the consent that his client gave at the beginning of the process so that the investigators could access his electronic devices.. It should be remembered that the dump of Navarro Tacoronte's mobiles are the basis of the investigations since the photographs and conversations it contained illuminated the investigation of what the investigating magistrate qualifies as a “criminal organization.”
The defense requests that the analysis of the electronic terminals be stopped and that they be returned to their client. This movement represents a reversal in the strategy.
In his brief, the lawyer urges the magistrate to officiate to the Technological Crimes Group of the Provincial Brigade of the Judicial Police to cease, he says, “in its activity of access, dump analysis, proceeding to the immediate return to its owner of said devices”.
The lawyer also wants to know which part of his sponsor's phones have been accessed by the Police officers participating in the investigation. “That the Technological Crimes Group of the Judicial Police Brigade be required to specifically report the specific elements or folders of the electronic data storage devices (including telephone terminals) to which they have accessed, have been consulted and dumped” , pick up the document.
To support his request, Rachid Mohamed sent a circular from the State Attorney General's Office where, he recalls, “it is expressly provided that consent may be revoked at any time”.
According to the summary of the 'Mediator case', Navarro Tacoronte made his phone available to him when he was arrested for another crime, an alleged scam that was filed.
The dossier details that it empowered them to access it without any restriction. Later, Navarro Tacoronte wove his speech throughout three statements that were produced between January and April 2022 in als that pointed out the political branch, first, and the military, later, of the Mediator case..
In January 2022, he contains the indictment, handed over his phone and allowed investigators to analyze it.. On February 22, he testified again in court and put on the table the name of Fuentes Curbelo -'Tito Berni'- and his nephew, Taishet Fuentes, who had succeeded his uncle as General Director of Agriculture of the Canary Islands Government.
On April 12, 2022, the so-called mediator made a new statement in which he delved deeper into the essence of the “criminal group”. That day, he introduced the General of the Civil Guard Francisco Espinosa, the only member of the plot that the judge put in jail. Only two months later Taishet Fuentes was dismissed as general director of the Canarian Government with the (still secret) investigations open on the channel. The regional president, Ángel Víctor Torres, attributed his departure from the Executive to a “loss of confidence.”