Senator Pedro San Ginés (Coalición Canaria) stated this past Tuesday before the Supreme Court that the case investigating him for the alleged commission of crimes of false testimony and false accusation has "an unequivocal political intentionality". This was reported by Europa Press, upon leaving the high court.
San Ginés was summoned this past Monday by the investigating magistrate Vicente Magro to testify voluntarily, as the request to the Upper House has not yet been processed. This process is common and "a preliminary step" to the holding of the trial, in which the possibility of reaching an agreement between the Prosecutor's Office and the accused is being considered.
The events date back to 2009, according to the Supreme Court's order to which La Voz has had access, when San Ginés held the position of president of the Cabildo of Lanzarote and the Centers for Arts, Culture and Tourism.
At that time, San Ginés voluntarily appeared before the police station in Costa Teguise to report alleged irregularities in the contracting of certain services, accusing Antonio González and the entity Climafrical. This complaint even led to the initiation of legal actions in a court in Arrecife.
During the aforementioned process, San Ginés testified as a witness in the judicial proceedings opened by his complaint and, "under oath or promise to tell the truth, again stated, contrary to objective truth, the same irregularities in the contracting of services imputed".
Ten years later, he testified again and maintained the previous accusations; a few days later, that case was provisionally dismissed, according to the Prosecutor's Office's account.
"I have come to ratify what I testified in the past, first within the framework of the operation and then in court," the senator stated this Tuesday.
Now, the Prosecutor's Office emphasizes that the then president narrated these irregularities "with the intention of disregarding objective truth, and with manifest contempt for it" and requests a year and a half in prison and his disqualification for the duration of the sentence.
