The Podemos councilors in the Cabildo of Lanzarote have taken to the Anti-Corruption Prosecutor's Office the documentation on the payments received by the lawyer Ignacio Calatayud under the presidency of Pedro San Ginés for his intervention in the Inalsa bankruptcy proceedings. This was announced by the purple formation in a statement, in which it questions that the government group had not already gone to the courts, "sixteen months and ten press releases after the president of the Cabildo, the socialist Corujo, announced legal measures against the alleged irregular payments from the Water Consortium and Inalsa to the lawyer."
This same Monday, Podemos had requested an appearance in the Plenary Session of María Dolores Corujo "to explain why she had done nothing despite having spent almost a year and a half assuring that she had knowledge of serious criminal acts by the previous management of the Water Consortium."
"These events, which are part of the bankruptcy proceedings that the public company Inalsa carried out during 2009 and 2010, have unleashed a media storm fueled by Corujo herself, who has turned the Cabildo into a toy in the hands of the political interest of the moment, thus contributing to discrediting the institution she presides over and to detracting from the seriousness of the events,” Barros reproached.
The councilor considers it "extremely serious that the Socialist Party has been using the first island institution to make partisan use of the information and documentation of the Insular Consortium” which has helped to spread “a shadow of doubt and discredit among the citizens.”
In this regard, she insists that the Cabildo of Lanzarote "issued up to ten press releases in which it slipped documentation of the process and issued value judgments inappropriate for a democratic and decent institution." “If Pedro San Ginés hired a personal friend out of hand, as the current government group states in its press releases, only a court can determine this, since we are talking about crimes that will have to be investigated and proven”, they say from Podemos.
According to the formation, the Government group formed by PSOE and PP "has not fulfilled its duty to bring to the attention of the competent court the facts that they themselves describe as possible crimes of corruption, which seriously hinders corruption from ceasing to be the premium brand of this island, because corruption is judged before justice and not before the press."
