Inalsa has reported that the Commercial Court Number 1 of Las Palmas has rejected the claim for fees presented by the lawyer Ignacio Calatayud against the public water company, requiring the payment of another 82,606 euros for his intervention in one of the incidents of the entity's bankruptcy proceedings.
After studying the arguments presented by both parties, the judicial resolution has accepted the reasons for opposition to the payment that were alleged by Inalsa, and declares that the new fees claimed by Calatayud are "undue".
The management of Inalsa has recalled that the lawyer Ignacio Calatayud, appointed by the former president of the Cabildo, Pedro San Ginés, to represent the public company Inalsa in the bankruptcy proceedings opened in 2009, presented last January an invoice for an amount of 82,606.9 euros for a bankruptcy incident of the year 2012 related to the UTE Edam Janubio, controlled by the company Fomento de Construcciones y Contratas (FCC).
"San Ginés' lawyer friend pocketed one million euros in two years for this procedure"
"The investigations carried out by the public water company as a result of the lawsuit filed by Calatayud demanding that Inalsa pay another 82,606 euros for bankruptcy fees and his refusal to provide information on the bankruptcy incidents, revealed the existence of multiple irregular contracts and the also irregular collection of huge amounts of money through opaque agreements reached between San Ginés and Calatayud that were not reported to the company, through which the lawyer friend of the former president pocketed one million euros (983,206 euros) for his intervention in the bankruptcy proceedings, all in a short period of time of just two years," they point out from Inalsa.
In addition, he recalls that "faced with this action by his lawyer-friend, San Ginés responded with various public statements in which he justified Calatayud's attempt to collect and warned the president that the company would have to pay that amount, something truly surprising because San Ginés is the only one of the former Inalsa officials who knew the enormous amounts of money that Calatayud has charged for incidents of the bankruptcy using the modification of the contract that San Ginés himself accepted and for which he has charged five times more for the incidents than for the bankruptcy".
"Once again, San Ginés' legal prophecies defending the payment to his friend have failed, because the court has sided with Inalsa, classifying as undue the 82,600 euros that Calatayud intended to charge," Corujo insisted, highlighting that "thanks to the defense of public interests we have avoided a payment that the courts have declared undue".
"The only undue payment would have been the 82,600 euros"
The president has also referred to the "false accusations of "undue collections" that San Ginés has been making for months to the health counselor of the Cabildo, which she emphasizes "have been denied by all administrations". "The only undue thing is the 82,606 euros that the former president wanted Inalsa to pay his friend, San Ginés knowing (because he was the only one who knew) that his lawyer-friend had already collected the astronomical amount of one million euros in the bankruptcy process," concluded María Dolores Corujo.
