The Investigating Court Number 2 of Arrecife has ordered the opening of oral trial against Pedro San Ginés, who will once again sit in the dock, this time for alleged crimes of false testimony and accusation and false accusation in the case of the Tourist Centers.
In his order, the magistrate also demands that he immediately deposit a bond of 248,751 euros, to ensure the payment of the economic amounts to which he could be sentenced.
In the event that he does not deposit it within 24 hours, as established by law, he warns that “his assets will be seized in sufficient quantity to cover said sum or, where appropriate, insolvency will be accredited”.
It should be remembered that San Ginés currently cannot dispose of his assets, due to the other criminal case in which he is immersed. It investigates, among others, crimes of embezzlement and bribery, related to the payments he authorized under his mandate to the lawyer Ignacio Calatayud.
Prison, fines and civil liability for damages
The magistrate has ordered the case to be brought to trial after receiving the accusation writings, both from the Prosecutor's Office and from the private prosecution, exercised by the daughter of the deceased Antonio González, who was one of those harmed by the “false accusation” of the former president of the Cabildo.
In the case of the Public Ministry, it requests for San Ginés a sentence of one and a half years in prison for a crime of false testimony in a judicial case, while the private prosecution raises the request to three years in prison, by adding another crime of accusation and false accusation.
Both writings also request that a fine be imposed on him, which the Prosecutor's Office sets at 4,050 euros and the private prosecution at 5,475. In addition, the plaintiff demands compensation of 182,347 euros, which is the amount that is intended to be secured with the bond, with the percentage increase established by law.
In that sum, the lawyer of the private prosecution includes both moral damages, setting it at 50,000 euros, and direct damage caused to the company, which ended up closing.
“He pointed him out as a criminal who was obliged to be vetoed and isolated”
“The complaints filed by Don Pedro Manuel against the father of my client, when pursuing a political object, had the widest public dissemination, as is well known by the entire society of Lanzarote, since the author of the complaint, from the first writing, points to the father of my client as a certain criminal, who was obliged to veto, isolate and investigate”, he states in his writing.
“As a consequence, the company Climafrical, whose commercial action was totally linked to Don Antonio González and whose services were historically limited to Lanzarote, loses all its clients in a few months and is forced to file the corresponding bankruptcy proceedings”, he adds.
In addition, he provides the documentation of that bankruptcy procedure, in whose report it was warned that “the presentation of a complaint for bribery against the administrator for some work carried out by the company in 2007, annuls any possibility of increasing the sales and services offered by the company, always supported by the prestige and good practice of its administrator”.
“In short, the criminal action of the accused directly led to the paralysis and closure of the company with the consequent patrimonial losses and the personal decline of Don Antonio González Medina, which lasted until his death”, adds the writing of the private prosecution.
To quantify the economic damage, he also points out that the businessman and his wife had to act as guarantors for loans contracted by Climafrical, mortgaging three farms of which they were owners, valued at 349,506 euros.
“Their relationship of loss of the same with the economic situation of Climafrical is more than evident, since the closure of the company due to bankruptcy has directly led to the loss of this personal patrimony of the family”, explains the lawyer, pointing out that last July, the Courts ordered the seizure of these farms and their auction, for an amount of 92,604.53 euros
For this reason, he demands that San Ginés compensate the family with that sum for which the farms will be auctioned, and with another 39,742.77 euros as lost profits, for the net profit that the company stopped receiving after the complaint against its owner.
This order ordering the opening of oral trial, dated last Wednesday, September 7, cannot be appealed, “except in relation to the personal situation of the accused”.