The Court has rejected the recusal of Judge Jerónimo Alonso as requested by lawyer Ignacio Calatayud in the investigation of the case against Pedro San Ginés for several alleged crimes of corruption. In the order, the magistrates state that "the recusal in the terms in which it is presented is unfounded and therefore, must be rejected".
"In no way are the allegations of the recusant admissible" in the cases in which the law contemplates among those that include intimate friendship or manifest enmity of the parties, having a direct or indirect interest or having participated in the instruction of the criminal case or having resolved the lawsuit or case in a previous instance, the court states.
"Given the absolute lack of recusal for any of the reasons alleged that, in no case, can be considered justified, the recusal raised must be dismissed, returning to the recusant the knowledge of the lawsuit or case in the state in which it is found"
As will be recalled, the judge of the Court of Instruction number 2 of Arrecife ordered the search of the house of the former president of the Cabildo and current spokesman of Coalición Canaria last March 28. An investigation that is under seal.
Subsequently, Pedro San Ginés himself held a press conference in the Cabildo of Lanzarote, in which he tried to explain the cause of the search of his home. The former president of the Corporation explained that one of the reasons for the investigation focused on the purchase of his house, in which he lived for years as a tenant and then ended up acquiring, on a date that he did not want to specify.
The house in question belonged to the lawyer Felipe Fernández Camero, who is the father-in-law of the lawyer who is also being investigated in this new case, Ignacio Calatayud, for the payments he received under the presidency of San Ginés. The councilman himself assured in that press conference that he was being investigated for "the misappropriation of 850,000 euros by that lawyer with his complicity". However, the former president assured that all payments on the house "were legal".
