Lawyer Felipe Fernández Camero refused to testify last Friday in the Arrecife Courts, where he was summoned as a representative of the company Adelfas 24 SL, which is charged as a legal entity in the new criminal case investigating the former president of the Cabildo, Pedro San Ginés, for crimes of embezzlement and bribery.
Camero's company was the owner of the chalet where San Ginés lived for years, until he ended up acquiring it, in circumstances that aroused the suspicions of investigators. And they consider that the operation involved an alleged bribe, acquiring it below the real market value, as consideration for the payments authorized by Pedro San Ginés to Camero's son-in-law, also lawyer Ignacio Calatayud.
San Ginés has publicly and in court stated that the operation was legal and that he paid 360,000 euros for the house, 100,000 of them “in cash”, but Camero refused to speak, and therefore did not confirm this version. In fact, he not only did not answer questions from the investigating judge, the prosecutor and the prosecution, but he also did not answer any of the defenses, including that of San Ginés.
Up to three different sales contracts
The only payments that are documented in the case amount to 260,000 euros, but for the moment the other 100,000 that San Ginés claims to have delivered in cash have not been proven. Who could have supported that version was Camero, but he chose to remain silent.
Thus, he also did not clarify why up to three different contracts for that sale have appeared, with different dates and amounts. According to sources close to the case, one sets the price at 300,000 euros, another at 265,000 euros and a third at 360,000 euros. In addition, there is a fourth contract, in this case for rent, signed by Camero's daughter and wife of Ignacio Calatayud, Juana Fernández de las Heras, who is also charged.
The chalet, located in front of the Castle of San José, was registered last March, when this case publicly broke out. That day, the agents also searched the current home in Madrid of Ignacio Calatayud, who is the main suspect along with San Ginés.
The case began precisely because of the payments Calatayud received as a lawyer for Inalsa in the bankruptcy proceedings. Until now, the investigation reflects that he charged nearly one and a half million euros in two years, possibly to the detriment of the public water company and the Consortium.
Adelfas 24 clients facing the Cabildo
The entity Adelfas 24 (owner of the house in which San Ginés resides), is a family company that provides legal services, formed by Camero himself and two children, lawyers by profession, who during all those years has defended the interests of hotel entrepreneurs and other entities opposed to those of the Cabildo of Lanzarote (such as Juan Francisco Rosa or the Hotel Papagayo Arena), which increases suspicions about the opacity of the operation of selling the chalet to Pedro San Ginés, since since then San Ginés' “landlord” has been the company that probably defended more issues against the Cabildo that he presided over between 2009 and 2019.