The Code of Ethics and Good Governance Commissionhas filed a complaint against the president of the Consell Insular de Formentera, Llorenç Cordoba, for alleged embezzlement of public salaries for the use for “purely private” purposes of the services of a civil servant. The Commission has denounced that Córdoba used the services of a lawyer of the Consell to make the allegations of last October 17, when he requested the recusal of two of the members of the Commission, as well as that the report in the hands of the secretary that is in the hands of the secretary Angel Custodio Navarro, that the recused members be replaced and that a new analysis be prepared “that does not generate doubts of impartiality and neutrality”. This is what the Commission has made known to the Consell in a document submitted and that was advanced by Radio Illa . The Code of Ethics Commission has analyzed the metadata extracted from the digital document to reach this conclusion, whose evidence has been sent to the Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office. The Cordoba document that questions the Commission carries its persona form, not the corporate one. “It would be absolutely contradictory that the lawyers of the Consell Insular could assume the particular defense of the subjects bound by the Code of Ethics before the reports of this Commission”, they have pointed out in the complaint published by Radio Illa.
Cordoba’s position
Although the contents of the Commission’s final report are not yet known, Cordoba is trying to overturn the conclusions of the to overturn the conclusions the conclusions by challenging two of its five members. In this sense, he has pointed to the notary Javier González Granado and the lawyer of the Consell, Lidia Serrano, who -according to the president of the Consell- have exposed animosity against him. The former has made public statements calling for the resignation of Cordoba, while Serrano has asked to be transferred from the department of Litoral since “the president did not respect the work of the staff”. For this reason, she asks that the report in the hands of the secretary Angel Custodio Navarro be annulled, that the recused members be replaced and that a new analysis be prepared “that does not generate doubts of impartiality and neutrality”, she says.
“Purely private interests.”
According to the investigation of the Commission, this defense would have been prepared with the services of a Consell official, which “is surprising”, since it has been done“for the defense of what are their purely private interests,” they say. In addition, they denounce before the Prosecutor’s Office that this lawyer is involved in the tasks of the same commission as “accidental secretary” in replacement of the titular island secretary. Therefore, he has had access to the minutes and has attended two of the meetings of the body. Therefore, they refer to an“evident conflict of interest“.
