The Supreme Court has summoned Coalition Canaria senator Pedro San Ginés to testify this Tuesday, investigated for the commission of alleged crimes of false testimony and false accusation while he was president of the Cabildo of Lanzarote.
According to sources close to the prosecution revealed to La Voz, this session is a "habitual procedure" and a "previous step" to the holding of the trial, in which the possibility of reaching an agreement between the Prosecutor's Office and the accused is being considered.
San Ginés will testify at 12:00 noon this Tuesday voluntarily, since the request to the Upper House has not yet been processed, as reported by Europa Press and echoed by the digital Canarias Ahora.
On April 13, the Supreme Court opened an accusation against the now senator for the Autonomous Community of the Canary Islands. The judicial process arose as a result of a complaint filed by San Ginés himself in which he exposed alleged irregularities in public contracting in Lanzarote.
The events date back, according to the Supreme Court order to which La Voz has had access, to 2009, when San Ginés held the position of president of the Cabildo of Lanzarote and of the Centers for Arts, Culture and Tourism.
At that time, San Ginés appeared voluntarily before the police premises of Costa Teguise to report alleged irregularities in the contracting of certain services, accusing Antonio González and the entity Climafrical. This complaint even led to the initiation of legal actions in a court in Arrecife.
Now, the Prosecutor's Office highlights that the then president narrated these irregularities "with the intention of lacking objective truth, and with manifest contempt for it" and asks for a year and a half in prison and his disqualification for the duration of the sentence.
During the aforementioned process, San Ginés testified as a witness in the judicial proceedings opened by his complaint and, "under oath or promise to tell the truth, again stated, lacking objective truth, the same irregularities in the contracting of services imputed".
Ten years later he testified again and maintained the previous accusations; a few days later that case was provisionally dismissed, according to the Prosecutor's Office.
Pending another case
Likewise, last February, the Court of Instruction number 4 of Arrecife, headed by Ricardo Fiestras, sent the statement of reasons to the Supreme Court so that the High Court could assess whether to continue with the case against the senator from Coalición Canaria for the contracts to the lawyer Ignacio Calatayud.
In this second case, San Ginés was charged by the Court of Instruction number 2, which initially handled the case, with the crimes of embezzlement of public funds, bribery, money laundering, prevarication, fraud against the administration, document forgery and belonging to a criminal group or organization.