Four days after appropriating Inalsa's costs for an amount of 642,000 euros, Ignacio Calatayud paid off the mortgages on two apartments in one of the most exclusive areas of Madrid.
The asset report carried out by the Organized Crime Team (ECO), under the Central Operational Unit (UCO) of the Civil Guard, within the proceedings followed by the Investigating Court No. 2 of Arrecife, has managed to prove that the UTE EDAM JANUBIO made a bank transfer to Ignacio Calatayud's company, for an amount of 642,000 euros, on April 3, 2014, in order to pay Inalsa the legal costs of an incident in the bankruptcy proceedings in which Calatayud intervened as the entity's lawyer.
The aforementioned report indicates that, just four days later, on April 7, 2014, Calatayud proceeded to cancel, using the account that received the aforementioned transfer, the mortgage that weighed on two homes owned by Ignacio Calatayud Prats, SL., the commercial entity through which he channeled part of his invoicing.
The homes mentioned in the report are located on Gravina Street, almost on the corner of Plaza de Chueca, one of the most exclusive areas of Madrid, and their estimated value would exceed one million euros.
According to the agents in their report, this payment corresponds to the amount of two invoices issued by the lawyer friend of Pedro San Ginés, as legal costs owned by the Lanzarote Water Consortium and the public company Insular de Aguas de Lanzarote, SL (Inalsa).
Precisely in the appropriation of these and other legal costs by Calatayud, lies the origin of the complaint filed by the Consortium and Inalsa, which have managed to prove irregular collections by the lawyer for about two million euros.
San Ginés hid from Inalsa and the Consortium the appropriation of more than one and a half million euros in legal costs by his friend Calatayud
In a recent resolution of the Provincial Court of Las Palmas, notified last April, said Court has confirmed that "there is no document authorizing Ignacio Calatayud to take ownership of the amount of INALSA's costs" and that the appropriation of those huge amounts of money owned by Inalsa and the Water Consortium was only known by his friend and former president of the entity, Pedro San Ginés, who hid them from INALSA and the Consortium.
In the same resolution, the Provincial Court has also confirmed that in this case it has been verified "the appropriation by Ignacio Calatayud of the costs of different procedures without there being a designation for his intervention in them, such as the absence of an agreement on the destination of the costs since the existence of such an agreement on the payment is impossible since there are neither designations nor contracts".
The same Chamber has also rejected the appeals of all those accused in this case (which the Superior Court of Justice of the Canary Islands considers one of the most serious and complex cases of political corruption in the Canary Islands), appreciating possible crimes of bribery, money laundering, abuse of power and embezzlement of public funds, among others, because "the designation of the lawyer required in each case the processing of the contracting procedure with prior budget, acceptance thereof, retention of credit and designation of the lawyer by the competent body, which was not done in the cases investigated in this procedure", in which "there are neither budgets referring to the aforementioned incidents, nor acceptance thereof, nor designations, nor contracts"
