The Contentious-Administrative Chamber of the Superior Court of Justice of the Canary Islands has ruled in favor of Inalsa in the appeal filed by the public water company against a November 2020 ruling, which condemned the Teguise City Council to pay almost 1.5 million euros to Inalsa plus the default interest generated since the interpellation of the appeal, that is, since April 2019, for a debt generated between 2002 and 2013, years in which the City Council did not pay for the supply or for the sanitation fee.
Citing different jurisprudence, the magistrates of the TSJC have ruled, however, that the company has the right to collect the default interest accrued "from the precise moment in which the invoices were issued, some of them, even, since December 2001".
"The amount to be received from the City Council presided over by Oswaldo Betancort rises considerably to almost two million euros”, they point out from Inalsa.
In addition, it emphasizes that the magistrates "implicitly recognize the right of the appellant company to the payment of the amount of 40 euros for each invoice to which its claim refers, which has not been paid within the contractual or legally established period".
The president of the Cabildo of Lanzarote and of the Board of Directors of Inalsa, María Dolores Corujo, considers that “it is fair that each and every one of us comply with the obligations contracted with public and private entities, even more so those of us who must set an example from our positions of responsibility”.
