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The former president and present vice chairman of the Parliament of the Canary Islands, the socialist Gustavo Matos, has separated on Tuesday from any involvement with the businessman of Lebanese origin Mohamed Jamil Derbah, arrested since May 1, and has assured that in the one assembly they held he promised to tell the inside of inside a collection of attainable police illicit police in Tenerife that he had informed him in his lawyer. “My relationship with Mr. Mohamed Jamil Derbah has been limited to a relationship of cordiality derived from common friendships, in the business and social sphere of the island of Tenerife, without ever having existed between any link that may have legal, contractual or other transcendence.” The socialist deputy repeatedly recalled that he’s not being investigated. The PSOE has agreed to open an informative file to the deputy “in compliance with the Statutes and regulations of the party”, as defined by the formation in a press release.

The Tenerife politician has appeared on Tuesday at a press convention held within the Canary Islands Parliament following the publication in The world from an inside affairs report that reveals an alleged dialog between Matos and the businessman – in jail for weeks because the chief of a community that was devoted to the felony group, drug trafficking, bribery and cash laundering – through which he requested him to intercede to keep away from inspections to his hashish golf equipment. National Police sources have asserted Europa Press on Tuesday, on this sense, that the investigation opened to the Lebanese businessman doesn’t indicate any crime to Matos.

In the press convention, Matos remarked that he maintained “a single and brief encounter” with Mr. Derbah and his lawyer, on January 29 at 18.30 within the afternoon, on the seventh ground of El Corte Inglés de Santa Cruz de Tenerife. “They exposed me facts and showed me some supposed evidence of these irregular or allegedly criminal behaviors by alleged members of the State Security Forces and Bodies, specifically the National Police Corps,” he detailed. “After that meeting, I promised to put the facts that were transferred to me – and that presented an appearance of serious irregularity – in the knowledge of the corresponding authorities dependent on the Ministry of the Interior, in this case of the subdelegate of the Government in the province of Santa Cruz de Tenerife. Issue that can be corroborated. I was informed that these facts were already being investigated.”

“If the investigators had the slightest suspicion … I imagine that they will have reviewed my accounts and have punctured my phone,” insisted the socialist deputy, who has repeatedly remembered that he’s not being investigated and careworn that the investigation relies on inside issues of the police, not from the anti -drug division. “The news itself is difficult to believe,” and has recriminated that he has not been referred to as to corroborate his model.

In this sense, Matos repeatedly denounced the existence “of an extreme gravity.” “A filtration of a report that I do not have a record of judicial actions that are declared of summary secret.” The Vice President of the Parliament will request testimony to the courts who’re investigating this difficulty to be transferred to these studies, has careworn that the printed report is “biased, incomplete and manipulated.” And has introduced. “I will appear and ask that criminal investigations begin to purify responsibilities by having partially filtered some actions that are under summary secret.”

The Government Delegation within the Canary Islands considers that “there is no case” concerning its division on the alleged relations attributed to the socialist deputy Gustavo Matos with a bunch of drug traffickers from Tenerife and expresses “all support” to the police work.

Gustavo Matos has been a lawyer since 1997. He has been a deputy of the Canary Islands Parliament since 2015, within the final legislature, the regional chamber presided. In 2014, he misplaced to the previous mayor of Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Patricia Hernández, the first get together to steer the PSOE within the islands. In that vote, the previous minister and present mayor of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Carolina Darias, was additionally defeated.