The reports provided by the Tax Agency and the Organized Crime Team in the investigation of the Pedro San Ginés case (CC) do not include any cash transaction in the accounts presented by Adelfas 24, the company from which the former president bought his chalet and for which he claims to have paid about 100,000 euros in cash.
The temporal coincidence of the irregular payments to Calatayud with San Ginés' purchase of a home from Adelfas 24, the family business owned by Calatayud's wife, Juana Fernández de las Heras, has led to one of the lines of work of the Civil Guard's Organized Crime Team being oriented towards the investigation of a possible bribery.
The hypothesis being considered is that in order to distort the existence of that possible bribe, San Ginés made a surprising statement before the Investigating Judge, later replicated in a press conference, stating that he had paid almost 100,000 euros in cash, thus trying to demonstrate that he did not receive any preferential treatment regarding the price of the house, acquired far below its market value.
San Ginés' strategy clashes head-on with the results that the investigation has been obtaining, since the reports provided by the Tax Agency do not include any cash transaction for those amounts and concepts in the accounts presented by Adelfas 24, S.L.
It must be taken into account that Adelfas 24, unlike an individual since it is a company, is obliged to keep accounting books in which these alleged income should be recorded, which, in turn, should have been reflected in the accounts presented to the Tax Agency and the Commercial Registry, but the reports of the Tax Agency show that such cash movements did not exist, completely denying the thesis held by Pedro San Ginés.
The statement of Juana Fernández and the investigations of the ECO
Juana Fernández de las Heras was questioned by agents of the Organized Crime Team (ECO) of the Civil Guard last March. Unlike Pedro San Ginés, who refused to testify, or her husband, Ignacio Calatayud, who mainly limited himself to answering by pointing out "what is stated in the proceedings", Juana Fernández maintained a collaborative attitude and responded freely and spontaneously to all the questions asked by the agents, which gives her statement a special veracity.
In her answers, Juana Fernández states that the sale price of the house, contrary to what San Ginés stated, amounted to approximately 270,000 euros, a figure that substantially coincides with the one collected in the sale contract of August 2019, which indicates the amount of 265,000 euros as the price of the house.
In addition, the attorney of Adelfas 24 and Calatayud's wife, when asked specifically by the agents "how were the payments of said purchase made, transfers, cash...?", responded emphatically that it was paid "all by bank transfers" and insisted that these payments "are stated in the annual accounts of the company".
Juana Fernández's statements completely coincide with the economic report carried out by the ECO agents. The investigators exhaustively tracked Pedro San Ginés' current accounts from 2009, being able to accredit transfers in favor of Adelfas 24, SL, for a total amount of 274,564.29 euros, a figure that coincides both with the sale contract of August 2019 and with the initial statement of Juana Fernández de las Heras.
This coincidence of Juana Fernández's initial statement with what is reflected in the contract and the data obtained from the investigation suggests that San Ginés' statement, recognizing payments in black to artificially increase the price supposedly paid for the house, completely lacks credibility and, according to sources in the case, would respond to a fabrication created expressly to try to distort the accusation of bribery.
In that sense, the silence maintained by the controversial lawyer Felipe Fernández Camero, who refused to answer the questions not only of the judge, the prosecutor and the prosecution, but also of all the defenses, including that of Adelfas 24, leaving without support the statement of San Ginés, who claimed to have made those alleged payments in black to Camero himself with which he intended to increase the amount paid for his home, takes on special relevance.
