The Court of Instruction number 4 of Arrecife, of which Ricardo Fiestras is the owner, has rejected the request of the Federal Executive of the PSOE to appear as a popular accusation in the case against the senator of the Canarian Coalition, Pedro San Ginés, for the contracts awarded to his friend, the lawyer Ignacio Calatayud, while he was president of the Cabildo of Lanzarote to represent Inalsa during its bankruptcy phase.
The Supreme Court, which was responsible for judging the involvement of San Ginés in the case due to his status as a person with parliamentary immunity, ordered to "return for lack of evidence" this judicial case to the Court of Instruction of Ricardo Fiestras. Then, the Chamber archived the judicial process for the rest of those involved and assured that "the perpetration of the crime was not duly justified."
After the provisional dismissal, in the order of rejection, the Chamber has stated that "appearances that could be based on spurious, fraudulent, merely dilatory motives and also those that could cause defenselessness and threaten the legal security of the parties should be avoided."
Thus, the Court has indicated that "legally it is not possible to admit at this procedural moment" the appearance of the PSOE because "otherwise the legal rights of the investigated would be seriously affected and harmed."
Pedro San Ginés has pointed out that this judicial matter originated with a complaint filed by Inalsa, a public company dependent on the Cabildo of Lanzarote, when it was under the presidency of the socialist Dolores Corujo, current deputy in Congress and general secretary of the PSOE on the island of Lanzarote.
In line with his latest public interventions, San Ginés has accused the socialist leader of "hiding official reports that exonerated him" and of allegedly having "used external documents to support the accusations with the aim of incriminating him with this false complaint."
In this context, the former president of the Cabildo of Lanzarote has lamented "the PSOE's attempt to appear now in this case", authorized by a power of attorney signed by the federal managing director of the state PSOE, Ana María Fuentes Pacheco, and with the endorsement of Ángel Víctor Torres, Minister of Territorial Policy and general secretary of the PSOE in the Canary Islands, to stop the definitive dismissal of the case.
"Now the order dismisses and criticizes the untimely claim of the PSOE when it literally adds that 'it is not possible to admit at this procedural moment the appearance sought by the PSOE, since otherwise fundamental legal rights of those investigated would be seriously affected and harmed' and that 'it must be taken into account that during the entire instruction, of great public and notorious repercussion, at no time has the PSOE shown interest in appearing in it, until this procedural moment'", he continued.
To conclude, Pedro San Ginés has defended that this judicial resolution "portrays the indecent use of institutions by the PSOE to attack its adversaries" and, in addition, has urged Corujo "to overcome her obsessions and focus as a state deputy on solving the real problems of the Canary Islands and Lanzarote that she neglected when she was president, such as the management of migrant minors, dependency, hydraulic infrastructures or housing."
Meanwhile, he has lamented that the PSOE, "once the rejection of its request was known, has requested a clarification of the order, presumably as a prior step to a possible appeal to try to keep the judicial case against the senator alive."
