The lawyer Ignacio Calatayud, who was appointed by Pedro San Ginés to represent Inalsa in the creditors' contest that affected said company, has had to pay Inalsa a total of 6,698 euros for having claimed from his own client some fees that the Court has declared that were not owed to him.
This was declared by the Mercantile Court No. 1 of Las Palmas in a resolution issued on September 28, 2021 in the Bankruptcy Incident 62/2012, which dismissed the claim for fees that Ignacio Calatayud filed against Inalsa demanding that the public water company pay 82,600 euros in fees for his intervention in one of the "incidents" derived from the creditors' contest that affected said company.
That judicial resolution not only dismissed Calatayud's claim (considering that the fees were not owed to him) but also condemned the lawyer to pay Inalsa the procedural costs (expenses incurred by Inalsa to defend itself from his claim), giving rise to a "taxation" procedure that lasted for several years, having ended by means of an order of February 19, 2025 that set the amount of the costs that Calatayud must pay to the entity at a total of 6,600 euros, which have already been paid by the aforementioned lawyer, according to judicial sources.
Calatayud charged more than 1.2 million euros for fees for the bankruptcy incidents that the Court later declared "undue"
Calatayud filed this claim for fees against Inalsa shortly after Pedro San Ginés lost the presidency of the Cabildo (and with it also that of Inalsa and the Water Consortium), after the new president of the entity, María Dolores Corujo, refused to pay "separately" large amounts for the bankruptcy incidents, considering that he was hired for the entire contest for a price close to 100,000 euros, as had been the previous lawyer of the contest, Juan José Cobo Plana (who was replaced by Calatayud by decision of Pedro San Ginés).
After assessing the arguments of both parties, the Court rejected Ignacio Calatayud's claim against Inalsa, declaring that the 82,000 euros in fees he claimed were "undue", so Inalsa did not have to pay said amount and it has been the lawyer himself who has now had to pay the entity a total of 6,690 euros for the expenses that this unfounded claim has caused him.
Demand for responsibility and return of what was charged in other incidents
Precisely as a result of that claim for fees that Calatayud filed with Inalsa after the dismissal, the previous government team of the Cabildo initiated an internal investigation that revealed that during the presidency of San Ginés the lawyer Ignacio Calatayud had pocketed huge amounts of money for fees for bankruptcy incidents that he charged separately from the contest itself, reaching amounts that, as a whole, far exceed one million euros.
As will be recalled, as a result of these revelations, the previous heads of Inalsa and the Water Consortium took legal action to obtain the return of said amounts and determine the responsibilities corresponding to those who allowed the lawyer to pocket the procedural costs in favor of Inalsa and the Water Consortium in those bankruptcy incidents, through agreements that were never known to the Inalsa Council or the Consortium Assembly. However, with the arrival of the new government team, it was decided to withdraw from these claims, after which the procedure followed against Calatayud and San Ginés has been archived.
