The Prosecutor's Office has filed an appeal for reconsideration before the Second Chamber of the Supreme Court, which issued the free dismissal and definitive filing of the case that was judging the autonomous senator of the Canary Islands, Pedro San Ginés (Canarian Coalition), for the commission of an alleged crime of false accusation and another of perjury.
In a writing that La Voz has been able to access, the Public Prosecutor's Office points out that the judicial resolution has "several errors that have conditioned it." Among them, it highlights that the justification for the dismissal of the case "may be misleading" and "give the impression" that Pedro San Ginés appeared before the Civil Guard because he was summoned. However, "he appeared voluntarily."
The then president of the Cabildo of Lanzarote went to police premises at 10:30 p.m. on November 11, 2009, to report several people. Among them, the then CEO of the Tourist Centers, Carlos Espino (PSOE), José Manuel Páez, and the administrator of Climafrical, Antonio González Medina, who died in April 2020, after suffering years of media attacks.
According to the Ministry, San Ginés "in his statement attributed" to Climafrical and Antonio González Medina having been hired by the island administration "bypassing the procedures established for the awarding of contracts" and stressed that the businessman had been a member of the PSOE and a member of the island executive.
The Prosecutor's Office states that "from the first complaint" it can be "extracted that desire to lie in a malicious way" and to "intentionally cause damage" to Antonio González Medina. In addition, it emphasizes that "all the accusations made" by Pedro San Ginés throughout the judicial procedure "did not correspond to the truth."
The then island president went to the Benemérita barracks relying on "a legal report from a lawyer of his political party", Canarian Coalition, drafted by a lawyer "whose name he does not know." That is why the Prosecutor's Office highlights that the complaint is "spurious" since it was "supported by the political party to which he belonged, but not by the institution he represented."
The Ministry contradicts the investigating judge and denies that the complaint filed by the former president of the Cabildo of Lanzarote was "protected by objective reports and verified statements." In this sense, he assures that "we have not found such reports, nor such statements." In addition, the legal report that San Ginés mentioned throughout the judicial procedure "does not appear in the proceedings" and questions that it may be "one of those that we call à la carte."
During his complaint before the Civil Guard and his different statements in court, San Ginés assured that it was the manager of the Tourist Centers, José Juan Lorenzo, who informed him "of the irregularities" reported. However, he did not report any irregularity or issue a report in this regard.
San Ginés also relied on the testimony of the economic director of the CACT, Francisco Ortega, who assured that the works "were necessary and the invoices were correct" and that the final cost of the invoices "was higher than the budget due to unforeseen technical issues such as leaks."
The Public Prosecutor's Office states that already in June 2011 San Ginés appeared before the Investigating Court of Arrecife, which investigated the case, and again cited the same legal report. The Prosecutor's Office concludes that there really "was no prior legal report" to the complaint against the defendants. In addition, in October 2019 he again testified before the same Court ratifying his testimony.
The Public Prosecutor's Office also insists that when the nationalist filed the complaint "he had already held the position of councilor of the Tourist Centers Area" between 2005 and 2007, so he "perfectly knew the organizational structure" and "was in a position to know the control and advisory mechanisms."
A response to the complaint of the Unión Case
The Public Prosecutor's Office states that Pedro San Ginés' complaint to the Civil Guard occurred "as a consequence" of the complaint that Carlos Espino had filed some time before and that led to the opening of the investigation of the Unión Case in the Investigating Court number 5 of Arrecife.
The Benemérita even initially framed San Ginés' complaint in the Unión procedure. According to the Prosecutor, Pedro San Ginés "intended to establish a connection between the complaint filed by him with the one filed by Espino." However, since that connection did not exist, the piece was broken down from the Unión case.
In this sense, he adds that "San Ginés obviously with the purpose of harming Carlos Espino, for reasons that are obvious to everyone, but that will be determined at the appropriate time, orchestrated a false action using police officers first and lying in his judicial statements later, which reached not only Espino, but also the owner of Climafrical, who was investigated" and "who was even required to provide a bond of more than one million euros."
The prosecutor Isabel Rodríguez Mateo was in charge of representing the Public Prosecutor's Office in the case of the multiple rape of the Sanfermines of Pamplona, known as the case of La Manada.