Agents of the Central Operative Unit (UCO) of the Civil Guard continue the investigation of the former president of the Cabildo, Pedro San Ginés, and have already summoned several people to testify. Among others, on Monday afternoon the former councilor of the Cabildo and current mayor of Arrecife, Ástrid Pérez, and the former mayor of Haría José Torres Stinga testified as witnesses. In their day, both were members of the Insular Water Consortium.
The deployment of the UCO on the island became public this Monday, when the search of the house where the former president lives began, which was owned by the lawyer Felipe Fernández Camero. Subsequently, the agents moved to the Cabildo with San Ginés, to go to the Coalición Canaria office in the Corporation.
The proceedings, which are being investigated in the Court of Instruction Number 2 of Arrecife, have been declared secret. What is known so far is that crimes against the Public Administration are being investigated, allegedly committed by Pedro San Ginés during his term of office. Crimes against the Public Administration include everything from prevarication, influence peddling and embezzlement of public funds, to bribery.
As for the specific events being investigated, their scope is unknown at the moment; but the fact that the judge authorized a home search suggests that there is solid evidence to justify a measure of this magnitude.
The last known complaint against San Ginés focused on the payment of nearly one million euros allegedly irregularly to the lawyer Ignacio Calatayud -who is the son-in-law of Felipe Fernández Camero- for the creditors' meeting of Inalsa. This lawyer was also the one who "advised" Pedro San Ginés in the illegal seizure of the Montaña Roja desalination plant, for which the former president will be in the dock next May.
In addition, Calatayud also intervened in the award of the water cycle to Canal Gestión under the mandate of San Ginés. Subsequently, this lawyer received important payments from that company, for which he worked while advising San Ginés on the seizure of the desalination plant, from which Canal benefited. And the seized plant was handed over to Canal, until the Justice annulled that decree.
