The former president of the Cabildo, Pedro San Ginés, has added a new complaint in court, in this case for the complaint that led to the case of the Tourist Centers against Carlos Espino. And, after the definitive dismissal of the same for not appreciating indications of crime, the family of the deceased businessman Antonio González, who was investigated in the procedure for the award to his company of the Jameos kitchen, has denounced San Ginés for slander, accusation and false accusation and false testimony.
Specifically, it is a daughter of Antonio González who intends to take San Ginés to the dock, after her father had "to endure for 10 years the so-called condemnation of the bench" - which was the time the case lasted - and as a consequence "the closure and disappearance of his company, Climafrical, liquidated through bankruptcy proceedings", all this "due to the false activity" of the former president of the Cabildo.
And, although the procedure was initiated in 2010 as a result of a complaint filed by the management of the Tourist Centers, then presided over by Ástrid Pérez, who governed together with Coalición Canaria, previously another complaint had been filed with the UCO by the then president of the Cabildo. Thus, the family of Antonio González considers that San Ginés was "the real author of the complaint" and the "intellectual inspirer of the complaint" and "therefore directly responsible for the authorship and personal author of the crimes for which, in the process of instruction and for more than 10 years", the businessman was charged.
"San Ginés is lying when he currently maintains that he never denounced the father of my client and that he went to the Civil Guard summoned by them and never voluntarily", it is stated in the complaint against the former president of the Cabildo.
"All the accusations were false from their birth"
In relation to the "falsehood" of the reported facts, it is stated that San Ginés accused Antonio González of having "altered contracts, charged without working, charged without delivering products, charged for products with exorbitant prices and with violation and falsehood in the billing system, to appropriate what did not correspond to him by reason of the contracted work". "All the accusations were false from their birth", it is pointed out, stating that the order to dismiss the case "has demonstrated its falsehood".
As a main fact, it is recalled that San Ginés pointed out that the work on the Jameos kitchen was awarded to Climafrical "not being the cheapest offer" when it was. "Therefore, what was stated by Mr. San Ginés is false", the complaint insists, where it is also stated that "all the contracts, orders or awards" made to Antonio González's company were made "applying the administrative rules approved by the Board of Directors of the Centers, with the active participation and vote of Mr. San Ginés and, therefore, with his full knowledge".
"In short, Mr. San Ginés falsifies the data in the archive of the Centers, which he knows and to which he always had access, distorts its reality, hides his identity, manipulates and interprets tortiously", it is pointed out. "And as the whole society of Lanzarote knows, the whole film mounted by Mr. San Ginés had only one purpose: to justify or accentuate a political confrontation against the one who was the administrator of the Centers", it is added.
With respect to the slander, it is explained that Pedro San Ginés accused Antonio González "of a theft for the amount of 26,357 euros, by stating that he has charged this amount for some products that he did not deliver to the Tourist Centers". "The fact, as has been sufficiently proven in the proceedings, is false: the material was ordered by the technical managers of the tourism centers, delivered, endorsed by those responsible for its reception and therefore paid to the contracting company, and as such appears and exists in the centers from a date prior to the complaint", it is pointed out, accusing San Ginés of acting "recklessly and with contempt for the truth" also making "publicity" to his accusations.
A "plurioffensive crime" that attacks "the prestige of justice"
"If the action of false accusation or false testimony produced by any citizen is always serious for the credibility of the Administration of Justice, it is more so when the author of that criminal action is a public authority", the complaint adds, recalling that San Ginés was then "the highest authority of Lanzarote" as president of the Cabildo.
Thus, "for continuing with his false attitude before the Judicial Authority", the family of Antonio González considers that "his criminal action must be understood as a plurioffensive crime that attacks, in the first place and in a special way, the prestige and dignity of justice".
The "economic damage" suffered by Antonio González
The complaint also refers to the "economic damage suffered by Antonio González, who "in a few months" lost "all his clients" in the company Climafrical, which was "forced to file the corresponding bankruptcy proceedings".
In this regard, it is stated that from a company with a net turnover figure "higher than 400,000 euros" in 2009, the year in which the complaint was filed, "it decreased to the figure of 7,023 in the year 2011". "And the obligatory consequence of this situation was the closure of the company, with the consequent dismissal of all the workers", it is added.
However, it is indicated that the "loss" suffered by Antonio González will be quantified "at the corresponding procedural moment", with the corresponding piece of civil liability that will be requested.
A "struggle for personal power" of San Ginés
The family of the deceased businessman insists that San Ginés' complaint occurred "in a specific political moment" where his "enmity" with the other main defendants, leaders of the PSOE, was "public". Therefore, he considers that the complaint explicitly states "a struggle for the personal power" of San Ginés, recalling Antonio González's own relationship with said party, of which he was a member.
"It is known by the whole society of Lanzarote that for Mr. San Ginés in his struggle for power, anything goes, including the use of slander, false accusation or false testimony, which is what Mr. San Ginés practiced in this process", it is concluded.
